Outside the Beltway

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

The attempt by Arizona’s Governor to revoke tax benefits granted to Nike in the wake of the “Betsy Ross Flag” controversy is most likely unconstitutional.

A law professor reads too much into a cryptic concurrence.

It was a very successful fundraising quarter for the former Vice-President.

Ideas, not tanks.

Change isn’t likely.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

A convergence of OTB discussions.

The surging candidate seems to be trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Republican Party is ruining the country. But so are the Democrats?

A day after appearing to have conceded the issue, the Trump Administration says it is still looking for a way to include a citizenship question on the ballot.

The post-debate polling of the Democratic race continues to be somewhat chaotic, but it’s clear that Harris and Warren have made this a very different race than it was before the debates.

In the wake of an adverse Supreme Court ruling, the Trump Administration has decided not to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are up, and Bernie Sanders is down, in the first state-level poll since the debates.

The Trump Administration has officially conceded to the rule of law.

The ex-athlete has picked a bizarre target.

Three new polls show significant changes in the Democratic race in the wake of last week’s debates.

As expected, the House Ways & Means Committee is suing Treasury Secretary Mnuchin over his refusal to provide the committee with copies of the President’s tax returns.

Bernie Sanders raised $18 million in the second quarter of the year, trailing fellow candidate Pete Buttigieg.

President Trump And the RNC raised a record amount in the second quarter of the year.

News outlets are hyping small swings in their surveys but the race is pretty much where it was when it began.

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

Can the commander-in-chief’s tweets be unlawful command influence?

Realistically, President Trump has very few options when it comes to dealing with Iran and its nuclear program.

Mayor Pete is raking in the dough.

POLITICO reports that some Democratic activists think she went too far.

The first Democratic debate has had an impact in the polls, with Kamala Harris rising and Joe Biden falling, although he still remains far ahead of his opponents.

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

The job laid out by the Framers in Article II of the Constitution has expanded a mite.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

Let’s call it what it is.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

At look at the before and after polling numbers.

The Vermont Senator has a bizarre alternative to court packing.

The Kaine-Udall amendment has met its predictable end.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on Monday that could make it easier to buy and sell alcoholic beverages across state lines.

In the first poll since he entered the race, Roy Moore finds himself in third place in the race for the 2020 Republican Nomination for Senate in Alabama.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

Another poll is out showing that Americans overwhelmingly oppose the President’s decision to ban transgender troops from serving in the military.

Stephanie Grisham, presently a top aide to First Lady Melania Trump, has been named the new White House Press Secretary and Communications Director.