Outside the Beltway

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

They average more than any other occupation and considerably more than their European counterparts.

When a go-to “nonpartisan” defender breaks rank does that change your opinion?

A watershed moment in the prosecutions of the Capitol Rioters.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

Most Americans are choosing to live a normal life in abnormal times.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Vice President Harris gets better care than the average American. Cue the outrage!

It’s happened. What does it mean?

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

An irresponsible Trump-era practice continues.

Why are we still wearing cloth, which was an emergency measure?

Mediocre legal education doesn’t pay.

The world’s worst COVID manager is now the world’s worst COVID patient.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

Wrongheaded thinking about the pandemic won’t go away.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

Despite the obvious connection with the university’s namesake, the word does have other connotations.

It’s possible to conclude that Pete Buttigieg is smarter than Elizabeth Warren for reasons having nothing to do with sex.

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

California Senator Kamala Harris is set to enter the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination later this month.

For the first time in her twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing oral argument this morning.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery to remove cancerous nodes from a lung, but reports seem to point to a quick recovery.

William Barr, who served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, has been selected to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

President Trump is apparently a Hurricane Maria Truther.

Despite the evidence, the President thinks he did a great job handling a disaster in which nearly 3,000 American citizens died.

A new study concludes that the total death toll from Hurricane Maria was vastly higher than previously reported.

Contrary to what many people have claimed, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii did not overturn one of the most controversial decisions in its history.

The United States has several options in Syria. None of them are good and one of them would be disastrous.

A new bombshell allegation in the Stormy Daniels affair.

President Trump has selected Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, to replace Janet Yellen as Chairman.

Federal Courts continue to rule against the Administration, and the President continues to lash out at Judges and demonstrate his contempt for the Rule Of Law.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.

A Federal Court has ruled that the Administration violated the law when it spent funds allocated under the PPACA for purposes other than those authorized by Congress.

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday To You’ has been invalid for at least the past eighty years.

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

Hillary Clinton has suffered drops in her favorability numbers lately, but that may not mean much for 2016.

Removing the responsibility to investigate police misconduct from the prosecutors who have to work with those police on a daily basis is a good idea.