Outside the Beltway

At least in these early days, Democrats appear to lack a coherent message, or a coherent strategy, to propel any effort to block Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Some considerations on the politics of Roe v. Wade.

Next term, the Justices will revisit the issue of whether someone can be tried in state and Federal Court for the same crime for the first time in nearly sixty years.

President Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees consists mostly of conventionally conservative, well-qualified, jurists.

President Trump is reportedly considering the 47-year-old Utah Senator to replace Anthony Kennedy.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.

We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

A federal trial court has ruled the practice an unconstitutional infringement on suffrage.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

GOP primary voters continue to reward staunch supporters of the President and punish those who get on his bad side.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

It isn’t a primary and it is an illustration of how electoral rules affect behavior.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

Earlier this week, the Illinois legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. What’s unclear is if this act has any meaning at all.

In an early morning Tweetstorm, President Trump said he would not have hired Jeff Sessions if he knew he’d recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

President Trump’s response to the N.F.L.’s new National Anthem policy is as narrow-minded and divisive as you’d expected it to be.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

As expected, Gina Haspel was confirmed as C.I.A. Director yesterday despite her controversial record when it comes to torture.

At least one red state Democrat will be voting against Gina Haspel.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

Republican chances to hold the Senate were boosted in West Virginia last night thanks to the fact that a fringe candidate was soundly defeated.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

It’s a valid question, but one should also be careful about drawing conclusions based on how a person in Trump’s position acts.

As expected, a Republican won the Special Election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, but it’s not a win Republicans should really be celebrating.

Republicans are planning on pushing judicial nominees through the Senate in case they lose control in November. Meanwhile, the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy raises the stakes.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.

Supporters of Roy Moore tried to bribe the attorney for a woman accusing the former Senate candidate of sexual assault when she was just fourteen years old into repudiating his client.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

As we wait for “an all-out snowstorm for the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC-to-Boston corridor,” a storm has already hit back home.

The near-impossible happened last night, demonstrating why March Madness is the most exciting and most absurd way to pick a champion.

Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

A majority of Americans say their lives are not “disrupted” by the time change. They’re wrong.

On OTB’s subjective, inconsistent enforcement of its policies designed to promote civil discussion.

What the heck is going on in Kentucky and Tennessee?

My former home state executes more people per capita than any other state in the union. It has not gotten much better at it.