Outside the Beltway

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

A race for the Virginia House of Delegates straight out of a civics book.

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Thanks largely to the fact that she has moved left on coal, Hillary Clinton seems likely to lose today’s West Virginia primary. But it will have only a minimal impact on Clinton’s quest for a delegate majority.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Coming across as uncaring doesn’t help advance your political arguments.

Why isn’t the American middle class and working class angrier at the 1 percent?

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

Attempts to capture the speech patterns of the American South in written dialogue should be approached with extreme caution.

Senator Robert Byrd has died at 92, after years of poor health.