Outside the Beltway

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

The President’s support for labor and aggressive action on climate change are in tension.

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

Don’t get your hopes up.

It’s time to ban a growing and dangerous practice.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

Localities are consolidating local elections to coincide with national ones. Some don’t like that.

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

The pandemic seems to have broken the social contract.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

A novel but flawed legal argument.

A new poll show a very close race.

A criminal trial is a poor venue for solving society’s problems.

The beloved author of children’s books had died days short of her 105th birthday.

Democrats are already jockeying to influence President Biden’s pick should a vacancy arise.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

But, still very bad.

Rethinking what qualities we should be looking for in Supreme Court Justices.

Sorry, UC Irvine, as long as Navarro is on the faculty, no donations from this graduate.

Lee Drutman’s Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

South Dakota launched a new ad campaign to deal with its methamphetamine crisis. They missed the mark.

We shouldn’t need bad arguments to sell good policies.

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

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The surging candidate seems to be trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

POLITICO reports that some Democratic activists think she went too far.

A trio of new polls shows Elizabeth Warren slipping past Bernie Sanders into second place in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

President Trump’s selection to serve as Acting Attorney General does not appear to be Constitutionally authorized to serve in that position.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

It’s more complicated than one might think.

California’s legislature has moved to block localities from imposing taxes on soda and other sugary drinks.

President Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees consists mostly of conventionally conservative, well-qualified, jurists.

The pardoning of Joe Arpaio was distasteful and an affront to the Rule of Law, but it was completely within the powers of the President and should not be a ground for impeachment.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

In the end, an effort by Democrats to block Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court does not seem like a good use of their rather limited options.

The reality of global climate change made itself evident again in 2016.

Big news in the war against a horrible virus.

Godspeed, John Glenn.