Outside the Beltway

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.

A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.

There were 111.3 million people tuned into the Super Bowl on Sunday, slightly lower than last year.

If you changed the channel after the third quarter, you missed what ended up becoming a game for the ages.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

A long-standing staple of American culture will soon be no more.

The Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates for only the second time in a decade, but it still seems like it’s chasing an inflation monster that doesn’t exist.

An airline traveler wanted his fellow passengers to know that he was a supporter of the president-elect.

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

The Greatest Of All Time.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is beginning to look beyond Bernie Sanders and talk about running mates.

A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.

The Commissioner of Major League Baseball has ruled that the lifetime ban issued against Pete Rose for betting on baseball will remain in effect.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.