Outside the Beltway

Another milestone has been reached.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

With Pete Buttigieg rising in the polls, but underperforming among African-Americans, some are wondering if his sexual orientation is holding him back.

The officer involved in the shooting death of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas has been charged with murder.

Another police shooting of an innocent African-American. This time in Fort Worth, Texas.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

A Republican State Legislator in Nebraska says things that other Republicans don’t have the courage to say.

A new poll has a majority of respondents saying the President is a racist. He won’t care.

Contemporaneous polling says Yes.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

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

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

Well, maybe.

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”?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Republican Bill Lee is coming under fire for continuing an annual tradition.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

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

The ex-athlete has picked a bizarre target.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

This year’s graduating class at West Point includes a record number of African-American women.

Northern Virginia is slowly undoing an anachronism.

Two youngish Rhodes Scholars turned mayors are getting covered differently.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

This is my shocked face.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

An interesting plot twist in the Goodloe Sutton saga.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.