Outside the Beltway

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

It’s time for her to step down.

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

“The GOP” is not a singular unit.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

He’s proposed a bill with no chance of passage seemingly timed to hurt his own party in the midterms.

It appears that the DOJ has enough evidence to indict someone.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

The 46th President will follow the lead of the 40th in making a historic appointment.

A number of GOP politicians criticized Trump over 1/6 and some resigned.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

And illustrations of the fact that this isn’t a regular trial.

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

Too little, too late.

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

GOP leaders in key states signal no EC shenanigans.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

The early reaction was premature.

An unconvincing attack on the Democratic position.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

Let’s be clear-eyed about this.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

A new poll shows Senator Lindsey Graham vulnerable to a Democratic challenge next year, but there are several caveat.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham blocked a bipartisan resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide, Now we know why.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

The evidence is clear that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 and intends to do so again. Despite this, Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation designed to enhance election security.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.