Outside the Beltway

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being sued for blocking people on Twitter. She’s likely to lose the lawsuits.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

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

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

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.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

A longstanding legal question may finally come to a head.

The university has bowed to student pressure.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

Trump really has no plan about the border save for demagoging the issue.

Add DHS to the list of Departments being run by interims.

Trump’s threat will not make things better (and the notion of actually closing the border is insane).

Trump declares he will end aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.

The Supreme Court will hear a case dealing with a challenge to the Commerce Department’s decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Some thoughts on the current mess.

President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

When it comes to the shutdown and border wall showdown that started back in December, Donald Trump is the biggest loser.