Outside the Beltway

An overreach on the “disparate impact” standard.

For Donald Trump at least, the start of the General Election campaign is the perfect time to dredge up decades old conspiracy theories.

A new poll indicates that the argument that the name “Redskins” is disparaging is not an accurate statement of how Native Americans themselves feel about the issue.

Donald Trump has announced that he would not be self-funding the General Election campaign. That’s probably because he really couldn’t afford to do so.

As we begin to head into General Election season, a few things to remember about the avalanche of polls to come.

In the immortal words of the Fonz, I was wr-wr-wr-wr . . . not exactly right.

If these numbers hold up, then the GOP may as well start planning for the 2020 primaries now.

Several top Republicans have already said that they would not accept a position on a ticket with Donald Trump, so who might he choose?

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

The passage of a new law in North Carolina has revealed an apparent obsession among some on the right with who gets to use which restroom.

The second place finisher in the Republican primaries is looking like the first loser.

Donald Trump is complaining about a ‘rigged’ delegate selection process, but the truth is that the fault lies with only one person, Donald Trump.

Justice Sotomayor argued last week that we ought to look somewhere other than just the Courts of Appeal, the Ivy League, and the Northeast for Supreme Court Justices. She’s right.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

A new poll finds that Donald Trump is really, really disliked by voters, but it’s unclear how much that will matter going forward.

Even as the outcome becomes more certain, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton seem to be attacking each other with increasing acrimony.

How much command of detail should we demand of presidential candidates?

Ronald Reagan famously claimed, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” I’m going through the process in reverse.

David Brooks has articulated a frustration many of us share.

Donald Trump hasn’t hit the point of inevitability yet, but time is running short if Republicans are going to stop him.

What would Jed Bartlet do?

Dare I say: hate the game, not the players?

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

The politicization of Supreme Court appointments didn’t start with Republicans last night.

It didn’t take long for the political battle over the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia to become another part of the 2016 political battle.

With less than a week to go before voting starts, Donald Trump continues to dominate the GOP race, with Ted Cruz the only candidate even close to looking like a viable challenger.

Is this really ‘infuriating’ news?

The flagship of the American right is leading the charge against Donald Trump, but it’s not likely to work.

New email headaches for Hillary Clinton, but it’s not clear what impact they will have on the race for President, if they have any impact at all.

We will have a two party system for the foreseeable future.

Americans don’t trust their government or each other. There’s no reason to hope it’ll get better.

There have been many arguments that polling has over-stated Donald Trump’s actual level of support among likely Republican voters, but there’s also a good argument that they are understating it and that Trump may do better when people start voting than many think.

People don’t much care whether information supporting their prejudices is true.

Sarah Palin has joined such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in endorsing Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration plan.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

For an Oval Office address delivered on a Sunday night, President Obama’s speech last night sounded more like a statement read from the podium in the press room.

The suspects in the San Bernardino shootings are dead, but that’s about all we know so far this morning.

The latest national poll of the Republican race shows Trump continuing to lead, Ben Carson fading, and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio rising while the rest of the field is stagnant or sinking.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

Given his rhetoric, it’s fairly clear that Donald Trump is drawing from a poisonous political well. So there’s no point in failing to acknowledge reality.

The worst-moderated debate thus far may have reordered the field.

Once the Republican frontrunner, Jeb Bush is now floundering and dealing with donors worried that they may be backing the wrong horse.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

Whether they like it or not, it’s becoming quite apparent that Republicans may have to get used to the idea that Donald Trump really could be their nominee next year.

A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

There are no “anchor babies,” there are only Americans.

While new information seems to come out on a daily basis, Hillary Clinton would rather that everyone think that her private email server wasn’t really a very big deal.

Donald Trump’s immigration plan is would create a police state, violate people’s rights, and hurt America’s economy. And his supporters will most likely love it.

Like many Republicans, Jeb Bush continues to be willfully blind to the truth about the Iraq War.