Outside the Beltway

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

What do they know, anyway?

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Is there a new frontrunner?

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

In a new court filing, House Democrats hint they might move to impeach the President again if the evidence warrants such action.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

The new round of tariffs on Chinese made goods that the President announced late last week will have a particularly severe impact on consumers and retailers.

Can the commander-in-chief’s tweets be unlawful command influence?

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

One of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, who provided the U.S. military with an unbreakable code in the fight against Japan in World War Two, has died at the age of 97.

We’ve soon see whether the current Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade.

A longstanding legal question may finally come to a head.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Yesterday, Microsoft became the third American company to reach $1 trillion in market value.

Breaking up is hard to do.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

Later this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could rewrite decades of law interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy rule.

President Trump’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

Minority rule and self-reinforcing cleavages are not a a healthy combination.

Debunking a theory for why the Kavanaugh nomination was supposedly “rushed.”

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

In an obvious effort to pander to the city’s taxi industry, New York City is placing new limits on ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Forty-two years after being founded in a California garage, and twenty years after nearly going broke, Apple Computer has become the first publicly traded company to top $1 trillion in value.

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.

It may be my favorite Star Wars film since ‘Empire Strikes Back.’

Tomorrow, Irish voters will head to the polls to decide whether or not to scrap a Constitutional Amendment that bans abortion in essentially all circumstances.

An important message from Josh Marshall.

In a new book, Senator John McCain makes an announcement that everyone was anticipating.

The next time you sign a credit card receipt could be the last.

A decryption device called GrayKey is being used by all manner of government agencies.

Begun the trade wars have.

This is from the band Jack Levitt off their 2007 release “Conversations With A Chupacabra.”