Outside the Beltway

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

After coming under attack from within his own party, former Vice-President Joe Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.

Quietly, Elizabeth Warren has been campaigning and putting out policy proposals while also appearing to gain ground on her closest rival, Bernie Sanders.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

Stacey Abrams, best known for losing the race for Governor of Georgia in 2018, is still apparently thinking of getting in the race. Her chances seem slim at best.

The narrow loser of the Georgia governor’s race has left open the possibility of running for President.

The Supreme Court has agreed to accept a group of cases dealing with the issue of whether or not existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Nein. Nein. Nein.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

While I’m sympathetic to his plight, he has no case.

A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.

A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.

My mother has passed, aged 75 years.

A Mississippi law that seeks to ban most abortions after 15 weeks was struck down by a Federal District Court Judge.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

The issues are different than in Florida or Arizona, but the Georgia Governor’s race remains unresolved as Stacey Abrams hopes to find enough votes to force the race into a runoff.

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

A Georgia County is abandoning a dubious plan that would have closed 2/3 of the county’s polling stations.

Care to guess the demographic makeup of the county?

RIP. Queen Of Soul

Happy Friday.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.

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

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

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

Does learning that entertainers are bad people retroactively ruin their art?

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

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

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

March’s Jobs Report fell far short of expectations.

Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.

Much of Atlanta city government has been forced to rely on pen and paper this week thanks to a Ransomware attack.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rules that existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

I don’t see how the state legislature making tax decisions on the basis of the public position an company takes is legal under the 14th Amendment. 

The Supreme Court declined to hear a major case regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the issue is likely to come up again in the very near future.

Ezekiel Elliott got a legal reprieve late last week, but it may not last for long and it could have a big impact on the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys.

A legal setback for Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys.

The Las Vegas shooting provides a good opportunity to enact a common sense gun control law that even Second Amendment advocates agree is called for.

The battle over Confederate statues that was resurrected by the violence in Charlottesville is off the front pages, but that doesn’t mean it’s over quite yet.

Facts are stubborn things.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

Democratic nominee Jon Ossoff is leading in a race that Republicans should be winning easily.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

Fewer people are watching live television events such as the Super Bowl and Academy Awards.