Outside the Beltway

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

It’s the least I can do—and the most.

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

A pattern is emerging.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

A former cast member charges that the show about equality wasn’t equal.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

America’s leading motivational speaker and self-help guru is coming under fire.

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

A leading conservative makes a truly bizarre defense of the President.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

A new blockbuster report implicates the President in no less than five Federal crimes.

Tulsi Gabbard was born in American Samoa, an American territory whose residents are generally not American citizens from birth. However, she is nonetheless a “natural born citizen.”

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democratic entrant into the 2020 race for President.

Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S, Attorney for the Southern District of New York have filed sentencing memos that directly implicate the President in a series of felonies.

Sherrod Brown pulled off the only statewide Democratic victory in Ohio on November 6th. Because of that, he’s being looked at as a potential 2020 candidate for President.

Despite a court ruling that says otherwise, the Trump White House appears prepared to once again revoke the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

The vise is tightening on the Catholic Church.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. The latest in a string of victories for opponents of capital punishment.

Those rambling campaign rally speeches the President loves to give aren’t getting the kind of coverage they used to, not even from his favorite news channel.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.

A Federal Judge in Texas has declined to grant a request to bring the DACA program to an end, but its days appear to be numbered unless Congress acts.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

A Federal Judge has rejected a Trump Administration effort to change a 20-year-old legal settlement that bars long-term detention of immigrant families.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information about abortion.

The Federal Government is signing on to an effort by Texas and several other states to have the DACA program declared unlawful.

The Trump Administration has lost track of nearly 1,500 children at the same time that it is implementing a new policy that will result in children who arrive at the border with their parents or other family members.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.