Outside the Beltway

The degree to which the country is divided is truly shocking.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

Online instruction is an inferior product. But it’s more expensive to deliver.

The hopes of football in the fall are fading fast.

Harvard joins a growing list of universities who will not offer in-person classes this year.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

Listen to this guy.

A book out today makes an odd case.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting she might hold back on sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. This seems like a bad idea.

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.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

Revisiting a recent post.

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

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

Public opinion on impeachment has taken a rapid turn that should alarm the Trump White House.

Jacques Chirac, who served two terms as President of France and was a strong opponent of the Iraq War, has died.

A familiar name has entered the race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

Well that didn’t take long.

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

The junior Senator from Massachusetts could be facing a big challenge in 2020.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

Another post-debate poll shows little change in the race for the Democratic nomination.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

After a firestorm of criticism for his handling of a decade-old plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has resigned.

A weird media narrative has formed.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was formally charged with multiple counts of procuring underage girls for sexual molestation.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

A law professor reads too much into a cryptic concurrence.

Is her professorial skill a liability or an asset?

Pete Butttigieg has spent the past week dealing with a crisis back in South Bend. How he handles it could have a significant impact on his campaign.

For the first time in more than thirty years, NASA is preparing to unveil a program to allow civilians to travel to the International Space Station.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans support equal rights for transgender Americans, with only Republicans disagreeing with that position.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

Just over a month after he entered the race, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his fellow Democrats while Bernie Sanders has several candidates hot on his heels.