Outside the Beltway

The trend line shifted this week.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Fewer people are very happy and more are not too happy than any time in a longstanding survey.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

A report outlining steps for re-opening the economy in the wake of COVID-19 has been leaked to the press.

He’s a long way from 1991 delegates but no one can beat him.

These decisions should be made by professionals.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

Hopefully, the final tally for a contest that shouldn’t exist.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

The obsession over a singular winner ultimately makes no sense.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

Governor Matt Bevin still won’t concede the Kentucky Governor’s race.

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

Beto O’Rourke wants to use government policy to punish religious institutions that don’t recognize same-sex marriages.

Jacques Chirac, who served two terms as President of France and was a strong opponent of the Iraq War, has died.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is the latest candidate to drop ou of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He won’t be the last.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

After 67 years, Mad magazine is ceasing publication of new material.

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

Much to the chagrin of Republicans hoping to win back a Senate seat they never should have lost, Roy Moore is running for Senate again in Alabama.

As if the situation in the Persian Gulf weren’t already tense enough, the Iranians shot down an American reconnaissance drone late yesterday

Not surprisingly, Chelsea Manning is headed back to jail for her refusal to answer questions before a Federal Grand Jury investigating Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Disturbing news in the Eddie Gallagher case.

Que Sera, Sera

A Federal appeals court says the traditional means of parking enforcement violates the 4th Amendment.

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

An interesting plot twist in the Goodloe Sutton saga.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

Looking ahead, the political landscape does not look well for the President.

As the shutdown continues, the President’s political position is becoming weaker. He doesn’t seem to care, though.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.