Outside the Beltway

In a recent speech, President Trump made claims about abortion that are manifestly untrue but which his pro-life supporters continue to believe.

Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are leading the field and Pete Bittigieg is doing surprisingly well.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

Happy Friday!

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Gender bias in student evaluations of college professors diminishes considerably by changing the scale.

When do we stop pretending that Fox News Channel is anything other than State Run Media for the Trump Administration?

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley says he would not consider a Supreme Court nominee in 2020. But does he really mean it?

Kevin Drum makes an important point.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

Once again, President Trump seems intent on insulting a major American ally.

Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.

Two months after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, support for gun control measures seems to be slipping.

New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in an important case dealing with the circumstances under which voters can be purged from the voting rolls.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

Facts are stubborn things.

After two days, President Trump finally found the words to condemn the parties responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, but his remarks were far too little, far too late.

For the third time since December,, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

Begun, the bathroom wars have.

The President has another plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s as likely to be well-received on Capitol Hill as all of his other previous plans on this issue.

Britons will go to the polls in June to decide the future of their country’s relationship with the rest of Europe.

As autonomous vehicles near the point where they’ll become a presence on American roads, are we approaching a day when it will largely be illegal for people to drive their own car?

Donald Trump displays some appalling ignorance about an important part of America’s military, but his supporters are unlikely to care.

As longtime OTB readers may have noticed, I’m not writing much these days.

Donald Trump’s demagoguery and disdain for individual liberty enters a new phase.

Donald Trump’s latest tirade has led to another round of speculation as to whether or not he’s ‘gone too far’ and reached the beginning of the end of his campaign. Don’t count on it.

A controversial marijuana legalization initiative that even many pro-legalization advocates opposed, lost in Ohio last night. But the nationwide momentum in favor of legalization will likely not be abated.

Another Republican Congressman has said that the Select Committee investigating the Benghazi attack is primarily concerned with scoring political points against Hillary Clinton.

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

At a town hall last night in New Hampshire, it became clear just what kind of supporters Donald Trump’s demagoguery is attracting.

There are some signs that Donald Trump has peaked in the polls, but at his current position he’s still in pretty good shape unfortunately.

Obviously, most of these people are smart enough to realize they can’t possibly win, right?

Even for political junkies, the thrill seems to be gone.

The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.