Outside the Beltway

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

The World Health Organization has declared the year-long Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a “world health emergency.”

Two new polls show that the President’s recent racist tweetstorms have not gone over well with Americans as a whole, but that’s unlikely to cause the President to walk them back.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans oppose statehood for the District of Columbia.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

After a series of line item vetoes, the University of Alaska is facing a 41% cut in state funding.

As early as Tuesday, Boris Johnson could be confirmed as the winner in the race for Tory leadership. This will make him the next British Prime Minister. Not everyone in the United Kingdom is thrilled about that idea.

A strangely under-publicized story.

The President’s approval is up and disapproval down after the latest incidents.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

The DNC has $9.3 million to the RNC’s $44 million.

Fifty years ago today, we were reminded of what humanity can accomplish if we put our minds to it. It seems like we’ve forgotten that over the past half-century.

Some key numbers.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf thanks to a collection of actions by Iran, the United States, and United Kingdom.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has a Republican challenger, but she doesn’t really need to worry about it.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

Former South Carolina Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is reportedly considering an intra-party challenge to President Trump

Happy Friday!

President Trump has named his pick for Labor Secretary.

The lineups for the second Democratic debate are set, and they include some interesting pairings.

Volkswagen recently announced that it was ending production of one of its most famous and recognizable models. The last Beetle rolls off the assembly line tomorrow.

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

House Democrats rejected an effort by a member of the progressive wing of the party to force an impeachment inquiry against the President.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary by a huge margin in 2016. This time, he’s slipping in the polls as other candidates rise ahead of him.

Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for President is going nowhere fast and he has only a small amount of time to stop the slide.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

Increased focus on conservative efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade appears to be rallying public support for abortion rights.

How times have changed, and not for the better.

Well, maybe.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

The numbers are in and there’s good news for some candidates and bad news for a lot of the others.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being sued for blocking people on Twitter. She’s likely to lose the lawsuits.

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

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

The President is defending his racist tweets against four Democratic Congresswomen, calling them Communists who hate America.

Anchoring of CBS Evening News is not what it used to be.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

Arguably, the three dominant players of today are 1-2-3.

The Federal Budget Deficit passed the $700 Billion mark with three months still to go in the Fiscal Year.