Outside the Beltway

It’s just as possible to live on one income as it was in 1970. But not really.

Our car culture is killing us.

Will consumers put up with monthly fees on top of hefty sticker prices?

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

A wildly ambitious goal.

Safety, trade-offs, and risk assessment.

Cheap, big, fast: pick two.

Constant flight delays and other frustrations require a solution.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

Do his achievements and good works outweigh his virulent antisemitism?

A showdown over wages could upend the apprenticeship arrangement that has long characterized graduate education.

Apparently, more expensive versions of products are often better.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

It turns out “the economy” isn’t just one thing.

It does not create better deliberation.

We have good reason to believe that a longtime member of the OTB community has passed.

ZZ Top’s longtime bass player is gone.

Not of governance.

Data collection and analysis takes time.

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

October’s jobs report came back better than expected but hardly something to cheer.

Confirming earlier rumors, Rick Perry announced that he’d be leaving his position as Secretary of Energy at the end of the year.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the Lanham Act barring approval of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks as unconstitutional.

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

Que Sera, Sera

A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

December’s Jobs Report blew past expectations to show more than 300,000 jobs created.

The Supreme Court appears ready to impose at least some limits on civil asset forfeiture at the state level.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

Thanks to a last-minute agreement, the United States and Canada reached an agreement for a revised version of NAFTA. It’s a got a new name, but it’s basically NAFTA 2.0.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

There’s no real plan and nobody appears to know what waits on the other side, but the United Kingdom continues to meander towards Brexit.

New York and several other states have filed an incredibly dubious lawsuit against the Republican’s new tax law.

A controversial name is disappearing from one small stretch of road.

With two more weeks to go, there are plenty of “big” cases still awaiting the release of a decision.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when he conducted a search on a vehicle parked in a Defendant’s driveway without a search warrant.

Enforcing our immigration and drug laws comes at the cost of fundamental rights.

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

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

The President provided a contender for most ignorant tweet this morning, as he makes a proposal that would disrupt the global economy.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.