Outside the Beltway

So, what now?

Are you going to believe this index or your own lyin’ eyes?

Is the creepy comic’s comeback complete?

I’m shocked, shocked, to find that this is happening here.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

The pandemic seems to have broken the social contract.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

There is a lot of anger out there.

A vaccinated 75-year-old is as likely to die as an unvaccinated 53-year-old.

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

Conservatives have lost it one generation at a time.

Some people claim there’s a woman to blame.

And linkages to broader US politics.

The state of American debate is not strong.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.

Tip O’Neill was famous for once having advised his fellow Democrats that “all politics is local.” That’s not true anymore, and that’s unfortunate.

A writer at National Review is proposing a compromise on the issue of transgender rights. Needless to say, many conservatives aren’t very happy about it.

Americans as a whole are becoming less religious and some people are panicking about it.

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Colorado baker in a case that will determine if claims of religious liberty and free expression outweigh the application of generally applicable laws against discrimination.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.

The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.

The people who believe there is a ‘War On Christmas” tend to be the same ones who hold to the largely false idea that their religious beliefs are under assault due to a “culture war.”

A trial court Judge in Oregon is the latest public official to refuse to do his job.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be entering the race for President later this month, but it’s unclear if his recent turn to the hard right will help him or hurt him.

Bill Scher examines “How Republicans Lost the Culture War.”

Chelsea Clinton is pregnant, and once again America’s political pundits are making fools of themselves.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

Politics aside, the challenges to the PPACA’s birth control mandate raise important legal issues.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Robert Bork, the controversial jurist whose failed Supreme Court bid ushered in a new climate in American politics, has died at 85.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good idea.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

Picking the wrong target.

Rick Santorum’s inability to stay away from the culture wars may have been his undoing.

Maggie Gallagher’s anti-gay marriage argument is an example of pure conservative thinking.

Are culture war issues about to make a comeback in the 2012 campaign?

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

Once again, the culture wars intrude into yet another area of life.

Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.

Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?

From across the pond, an observation that the way we pick Presidents isn’t really that bad after all.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.