Outside the Beltway

The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.

I’ve changed my mind on a couple of things and hardened my opinion on others.

Less than a day before a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a third woman has come forward with new allegations involving Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Republicans have set a Judiciary Committee vote for less than a day after hearing from Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Why a much-cited analogy in the Brett Kavanaugh controversy is problematic.

We’ll likely never know whether the Supreme Court nominee is a sexual assaulter. But it really doesn’t matter.

We should take Congressional officers out of the line of succession.

A basic explanation for Trump’s behavior towards Russia.

President Trump says he wants to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but his own lawyers clearly don’t trust him enough to allow that to go forward.

Some Democrats want to compel President Trump’s translator to testify about his private meeting with Vladimir Putin. That’s a bad idea.

One day after an embarrassing performance at the Helsinki Summit, President Trump an absurd, completely unbelieve walk back of things the entire world heard him say loud and clear.

President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was an even bigger disaster than anticipated.

Another poll shows that the vast majority of Americans do not want to see the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade overturned.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

At least in these early days, Democrats appear to lack a coherent message, or a coherent strategy, to propel any effort to block Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

There’s a reason President Trump’s Supreme Court picks are “normal” in a way his national security and economic teams are not.

There are good arguments as to why progressive Senators should vote against his confirmation. Let’s stick to those.

The President is generating so much outrage on a daily basis that we’re missing important stories.

America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.

It’s more complicated than one might think.

Today is a great day to reflect on the Enlightenment ideals that fueled a Declaration.

A thoughtful liberal argues the Justice has “altered and destroyed his legacy” by allowing Donald Trump to appoint his successor.

Trump’s deal-making prowess in NK and Iran isn’t too impressive.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

Trump uses an array of ugly language about immigrants. He pretends like he is just talking about MS13 but that is not the case.

Progressive enthusiasm for the notion that our governing framework is dynamic and ought be constantly updated by the judiciary is waning.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

The dean of conservative columnists argues that the Republican Congress must be taught a lesson.

The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.

The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.

In an exceedingly narrow ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding reception. However, the ruling did not address the broader issues raised by the case.

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

This President lies on a daily basis. It’s time to start calling him what he is.

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

Robert Mueller has reportedly concluded that he cannot indict a sitting President. This is not a vindication of Trump, and merely upholds a conclusion that the Justice Department reached four decades ago.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

The Donald Trump presidency has some eerie parallels with his run on “The Apprentice.”

It’s a valid question, but one should also be careful about drawing conclusions based on how a person in Trump’s position acts.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

Ring Lardner said he would “rather write for the New Yorker at five cents a word than for Cosmopolitan at one dollar a word.” A century later, he’d be lucky to get those rates.

An attempt at defining the conversation.