Outside the Beltway

State election officials are standing by for challenges to Trump’s right to run.

Being against something just isn’t enough.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

Several stories, not enough time for full write-ups.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

The Russian government likely is quite pleased.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

A Constitutional coup d’etat is not the way to solve the Donald Trump problem.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

Nearly two-thirds of House Republicans voted for default. They lost.

Much like the Tea Party, David Frum wants to make the GOP tent smaller.

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

Ross Douthat bemoans the evolution of American cultural norms over the past fifteen years.

Once again, the House GOP is risking sending the economy into the tank to prove a political point.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

Conservatives are suposed to be cheerleaders these days.

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

In Rick Santorum’s brand of conservatism, no smart people need apply.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

This charge is false, as 10 minutes’ work by the Washington Post would have shown.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

There are signs that the economy is slowing down so quickly that we may inevitably drift into recession.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s alleged involvement in moving companies overseas is entirely phony.