Outside the Beltway

News outlets are hyping small swings in their surveys but the race is pretty much where it was when it began.

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

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

The first Democratic debate has had an impact in the polls, with Kamala Harris rising and Joe Biden falling, although he still remains far ahead of his opponents.

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

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on Monday that could make it easier to buy and sell alcoholic beverages across state lines.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled against a Seattle-area florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

Maine has become the eighth state to pass a law allowing terminally ill the choice to bring their lives to a dignified end.

The lineups for the first Democratic debate of the 2020 season are set but some candidates are likely to be unhappy.

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

The participants for the two-night opening debate of the 2020 campaign season have been announced, and the candidates who were excluded aren’t happy.

Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

The latest iteration of a benchmark Iowa poll shows Joe Biden leading, with Bernie Sanders sinking and looking at several candidates closing in on him.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

John Kasich hasn’t shut the door completely, but recent comments seem to make it clear he’s not likely to take on the President for the Republican nomination.

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

While mildly embarrassing, it’s unlikely to have much impact on the race.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Bernie Sanders supporters are a wee bit sensitive.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.

Quietly, Elizabeth Warren has been campaigning and putting out policy proposals while also appearing to gain ground on her closest rival, Bernie Sanders.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

No, abolishing the EC would not turn farmers into serfs.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

More proportional than the GOP, but perhaps not as proportional as one might think.