Outside the Beltway

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

It’s possible to conclude that Pete Buttigieg is smarter than Elizabeth Warren for reasons having nothing to do with sex.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

Lock them up.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

The key remains the military.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer begins three days of testimony before Congress today. By the time he’s done, he could end up doing real damage to the Trump Presidency.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

Bret Stephens on Howard Schultz

…there is only one plausible pathway to get there.

The President is an ignoramus and a blowhard and a petulant child but he’s operating within the Constitutional limits of his office.

Pete Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is the latest entrant into the 2020 race for President. To say is a long-shot is an understatement.

The efforts by Speaker Pelosi and President Trump to leverage their institutional powers raise interesting questions.

President Trump responded to the suggestion that the State of the Union be rescheduled by revoking military transportation for a Congressional trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.

The Speaker is well within her rights to make Trump’s invitation conditional on ending the shutdown. But let’s not pretend we can’t keep him safe.

Don’t expect the Congress (i.e., the Senate) to pull us out of this shutdown mess.

Nancy Pelosi is apparently close to a deal with dissident Democrats that will keep her in power until at least 2022.

The verdict of last month’s elections was clear, but Republicans still don’t seem to get it.

President Trump’s first choice to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff turned the job down, leading one to wonder why anyone would want the job.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

He says he won’t announce anything until after the start of 2019, but Joe Biden is sure sounding like a guy who’s running for President.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he’s not running for President in 2020.

In news replete with irony, it’s being reported that Ivanka Trump used a private email account to communicate about government business.

For Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter, Jr. being indicted didn’t stop them from being re-elected.

The emergence of a silly talking point.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s name may be unfamiliar, but he’s looking to change that.

Add yet another name to the potential Democratic campaign field in 2020.

Rather than cauterizing an open wound, she’s fanned the fuels of a fire.

Math rules.

We should take Congressional officers out of the line of succession.

Regardless of who wins control of the Senate in November, the person who will stand third in the line of succession will either be over, or very close to, eighty years old. That doesn’t make sense.

Indicted New York Congressman Chris Collins will run for re-election despite being indictment for securities fraud.

Ohio billionaire Les Wexner was a top Republican donor and fundraiser in Ohio, but not anymore.

As I have repeatedly noted: Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.

Tom Nichols argues it should. I disagree.

Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”

It’s not obvious that two more felons in the Trump inner circle will have any immediate impact.

The American public is not sold on the idea of a ‘Space Force.’

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who used to be a Trump favorite, is out with a book that makes sensationalistic claims about the Trump Administration. The real story, though, is what she has on tape and how she got it.

There has been a deluge of responses to Laura Ingraham’s recent diatribe about culture and immigration, but I want to look at her rhetoric from a different perspective. The perspective I want to look at is statements by Ingraham about cultures changing over time and the implications in regards to policies about these changes.

After one year at a job that has to be among the most frustrating in Washington, John Kelly has agreed to stay on through the 2020 election.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’d like to stay on the Court at least until she turns 90, but it’s unlikely she’ll go anywhere voluntarily as long as Donald Trump is President.