Outside the Beltway

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

Political Science research suggests that the election is, in basic ways, about what we would expect.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

The A Priest, a Rabbi and a Swami walk into a Babar Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

Basic trust in process is essential for democratic governance to function and major party nominees ought not be undercutting that trust for cynical gain.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

Well that took long enough.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

Given the consequences of a Brexit, one wonders why the referendum didn’t require more than just a simple majority to pass.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

The Supreme Court has once again issued a ruling that further chips away at the protections of the Fourth Amendment.

The murder of Jo Cox, MP is looking more and more like a politically motivated assassination, and that’s causing some in Great Britain to look inward.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

Libertarian Party Presidential nominee Gary Johnson is doing quite well in the polls, when pollsters bother to include him.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

Top officials of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have taken jobs in the industry they were regulating.

The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s fate lies the hands of the Supreme Court.

Another big night for Hillary Clinton, and more bad news for Bernie Sanders.

In a huge step forward for criminal justice reform, Virginia’s Governor has restored voting rights for some 200,000 people who have paid their debt to society.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

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.

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

Bernie Sanders swept the Western Caucuses on Saturday, but Hillary Clinton remains in control in the delegate count.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

Primary turnout is not predictive of general election outcomes.

Given the stakes headed into the latest version of ‘Super Tuesday,’ last night’s Republican debate was surprisingly subdued.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

With time running out, the top three candidates for the Republican nomination picked up right where they left off last week.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

David Brooks has articulated a frustration many of us share.

Is President Obama planning a Checkmate move in the SCOTUS nomination fight?

This year’s Nevada Caucuses are a good argument for why there should not be any more caucuses.

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