Outside the Beltway

Marianne Williamson is getting some competition.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

Could it be that he was untruthful?

Enjoy.

Do his achievements and good works outweigh his virulent antisemitism?

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

What are the limits of representation?

A brief obeservation.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Since when is it a crime to say stupid things on “The View”?

People, details do in fact matter!

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

A conversation in two parts.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham blocked a bipartisan resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide, Now we know why.

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

Iowa Congressman Steve King finds himself low on campaign cash and with virtually no support from his party.

Congressman Steve King has some rather unique views about human history.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

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

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Charges have been filed against the man responsible for the massacre in Pittsburgh in both Federal and State court.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Some considerations on the politics of Roe v. Wade.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

Some legal scholars are speculating that the Court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop could impact the ruling on the President’s Muslim Travel Ban. This seems unlikely.

In an exceedingly narrow ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding reception. However, the ruling did not address the broader issues raised by the case.

President Trump has issued another controversial pardon.

Even the United Nations has given up trying to maintain an accurate estimate.

A plurality of Americans aged 18 to 34 have no idea how many people were killed, what Auschwitz was, or how Hitler came to power.