Outside the Beltway

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

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

A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case alleging that Texas’s Congressional and state legislative districts were drawn with the intent to discriminate based on race.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.

Yet another object lesson in why active efforts at inclusiveness are vital.

Stephon Clark died after being shot eight times in the back and side by police in Sacramento. So far, the authorities haven’t acted.

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

A woman who was at the center of one of the most important Supreme Court cases in American history has died at the age of 75.

57% of American adults, more than 80% of blacks, 75% of Hispanics, and nearly half of whites believe their President is racist.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

Two classic pieces of American Literature have been banned from the curriculum in Duluth, Minnesota. This is a mistake.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.

Once again, President Trump opens his mouth and proceeds to insult a good part of the world while embarrassing the country.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

Even a ceremony honoring American heroes wasn’t immune from President Trump’s habit of attacking racial minorities.

The school district in Biloxi, Mississippi has removed ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th-grade reading list because it “makes people uncomfortable.”

Donald Trump went there again, and in the process reopened a wound that was starting to heal just a little bit.

The battle over Confederate statues that was resurrected by the violence in Charlottesville is off the front pages, but that doesn’t mean it’s over quite yet.

Donald Trump’s Secretary of State is refusing to defend his response to the violence in Charlottesville.

Solace emboldens and helps to mainstream.

The First Amendment protects the rights even of the people who gathered in Charlottesville to promote hatred and violence, However, it does not shield them from the consequences of that speech.

Who could have predicted we would be where we are at the moment in terms of racial politics and the White House?

Republicans now face a stark choice.

Yes, even Nazis must have their rights to peaceful speech and assembly protected.

Facts are stubborn things.

We can not condone vandalism and worse.

President Trump once again revealed his true self at a press conference yesterday.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

Some Presidents knew how to respond to racism and hatred. The current President doesn’t.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

An important redistricting decision was handed down by the Supreme Court today.

A guilty plea in a particularly shocking case of police brutality.

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Not surprisingly, Dylann Roof received a sentence of death for the murder of nine people at a historic African-American church.

To nobody’s surprise, Dylann Roof was convicted of the race-motivated murders in a Charleston church.

Despite a video that clearly shows what appears to be cold-blooded murder, the trial of a South Carolina cop who shot an African-American man in the back while he ran away ended in a hung jury. Fortunately, this isn’t the end of the road.

So what’s wrong with the Whitelash Backlash thesis?  Not everything, actually.  But plenty.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

The Federal Judge presiding over Dylann Roof’s murder trial suggested late last week that Roof may not presently be competent to stand trial. This does not mean that he’ll be set free, though.

Distinguishing between anti-elite populism and coded anti-Semitism is next to impossible.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.