Outside the Beltway

Officers are under enormous pressure–including from the Federal government–to write tickets.

Pretrial rulings strengthen his self-defense claims.

Is the Worldwide Leader responsible oblivious to bigotry?

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

Getting an impartial jury in an internationally-famous case is next to impossible.

It’s harder than a looks, especially given the limited size of the problem.

They were “disrespectful to the rule of law.”

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

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A long overdue–and complicated—recognition.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

A new poll shows meaningful shifts in public attitudes.

We’re winding down to Election Day. Where do we stand?

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

The rules are different if you’re famous.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

A civil rights legend has passed.

Free speech is not for everyone.

The crowd for DC’s fireworks celebration was small but weird.

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Nike and FedEx may be able to do what Native American activists couldn’t.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

President Trump is behind 14 points in the latest NYT poll.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro is the latest addition to the growing Democratic Presidential field.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

A police officer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who tased an apparently compliant African-American man will not be disciplined by his department, and probably won’t face charges either.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

Yet another object lesson in why active efforts at inclusiveness are vital.

Donald Trump has apparently made the American public more supportive of players who kneel for the National Anthem.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

Yes, even Nazis must have their rights to peaceful speech and assembly protected.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

After four straight losses, prosecutors in Baltimore are throwing in the towel in the Freddie Gray case.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

The murder of Jo Cox, MP is looking more and more like a politically motivated assassination, and that’s causing some in Great Britain to look inward.