Outside the Beltway

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

Obvious advice is obvious.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

At least in official government documents, Japan will return to the tradition Asian style of placing the surname before an individuals given name.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

Part 1

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

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

Is it really such a bad thing when a politician changes a long-help position on a political issue?

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.

This year’s graduating class at West Point includes a record number of African-American women.

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.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

An odd bureaucratic reshuffling, seemingly out of the blue.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

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

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

Bernie Sanders is likely to run for the Democratic nomination, but it won’t be like 2016.

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

Nancy Pelosi is apparently close to a deal with dissident Democrats that will keep her in power until at least 2022.

While most Hollywood blockbusters have male leads, films starring women actually do better on the aggregate.

The NYT is trying to start a conversation.

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

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.

One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

There has been a deluge of responses to Laura Ingraham’s recent diatribe about culture and immigration, but I want to look at her rhetoric from a different perspective. The perspective I want to look at is statements by Ingraham about cultures changing over time and the implications in regards to policies about these changes.

The House of Representatives has left town after once again failing to pass an immigration reform bill,, thus likely ensuring that nothing will be passed before the midterms.

ABC is bringing back Roseanne without Roseanne Barr. Whether that will prove to be a success or not remains to be seen.

House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

Thanks to mostly what amounts to bad science reporting in the popular media, a false claim about one of nature’s most mysterious and unique creatures continues to spread.