Outside the Beltway

A parody of a joke.

They are standing by as ordered.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

Pondering lack of US interest in our friends to the south.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

The trend line shifted this week.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

Joementum.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

Some global comparisons.

And some notes on Trump’s media exposure.

The 58-year-old may have a post-presidency unmatched in history.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

This isn’t what leadership looks like.

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

Listen to this guy.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

We’re going to make history one way or another in November.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

(Or not. Part 1,276,524).

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

The 45th President polls worse than other prominent Republicans.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

The assassination of a top Iranian official on a visit to Baghdad is having the expected negative impact on our relationship with Iraq and the fight against ISIS.

In just three years in office, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking huge steps in transforming the judiciary for decades to come.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.

The President is committing enough high crimes and misdemeanors without us manufacturing them.

Greg Mankiw, an economist who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is officially no longer a Republican