Outside the Beltway

The New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago metro areas are all losing people.

US higher education is made up of far more than just the Ivies and other elite schools.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

It’s a lot harder than it looks.

While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

Job growth in February was far below estimates, but we did see some solid wage growth and other signs that we’re approaching what economists refer to as “full employment.”

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

The Supreme Court issued a ruling that places new limits on civil asset forfeiture by state and local government.

The shooter who killed five people in a factory in Illinois on Friday should not have had a gun to begin with.

Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.

For the first tine in nearly ten years, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Second Amendment rights.

A Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder has been sentenced to seven years in prison, but could be out in as little as three-and-a-half.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

Fifty years ago tonight, one of the most iconic photos in history was taken.

A preliminary report from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan found at least 500 Catholic Priests whose abuse of children had been covered up by Church officials.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

President Trump’s first choice to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff turned the job down, leading one to wonder why anyone would want the job.

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

Happy Friday!

Yes, there can be real problems with election activities, but that does not excuse POTUS’ lies about fraud.

As expected, the midterm elections ended up being a split result that gives Democrats and Republicans alike reason to celebrate.

The Catholic Church’s problems may have just gotten a lot more serious.

Once the iconic American retail store, Sears now faces the possibility that it may end up fading into history.

The Trump Administration’s war on so-called “Sanctuary Cities” suffers yet another defeat in Court.

A once iconic American retailer appears to be on its last legs.

Nearly four years after the fact, a Chicago Police Officer has been found guilty of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

In what appears to be a first, Judge Brett Kavanaugh took to the media to defend his nomination. Not surprisingly, he chose a friendly venue.

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos received a very generous sentence in return for his guilty plea.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

Chicago won’t have Rahm Emanuel to kick around anymore.

Democrats have pulled the trigger and essentially eliminated the power of superdelegates except in the unlikely event that a nominating convention goes to a second ballot.

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games over his handling of allegations of domestic violence by an Assistant Coach dating back to 2015.

A Federal Appeals Court has found that a Trump Administration policy purporting to punish so-called sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.

Trump’s trade war will claw back 25% of the growth in GDP, slightly more than 20% of the wage growth and more than wipe out all the jobs his tax cuts would provide.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down part of a Hawaii law barring open carry of weapons, but this win for gun rights advocates may turn out to be short-lived.

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

The Democratic National Committee is one step closer to adopting a rule change that would make superdelegates largely irrelevant to the party’s nomination process.

There’s a reason President Trump’s Supreme Court picks are “normal” in a way his national security and economic teams are not.

A Federal Judge in California has largely rejected a Trump Administration challenge to a series of new laws in California designed to protect so-called “sanctuary cities.”

With Justice Kennedy retiring, the new center of the Roberts Court is likely to be the Chief Justice himself.

A really weird detail buried in a New York Times story about President Trump’s efforts to get the Justice to retire.

The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.