Outside the Beltway

The Irish singer-activist is gone at 56.

Hollywood and the news media are roiled in labor disputes.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

You’re not helping, Mr. President.

A study has found significant health benefits.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

A number of GOP politicians criticized Trump over 1/6 and some resigned.

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

For now, at least, it can shift millions of its earnings to Luxembourg.

Science, politics, and social norms intersect in some really strange ways.

President Biden’s pollster has made an amazing discovery.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

Lee Drutman’s Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

This is no way to run a railroad.

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

Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan scored a big win in Parliament, which makes a January 31st Brexit essentially inevitable.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

British voters are voting today in the third election in four years. This time, the fate of Brexit is on the ballot.

With just days to go before the election, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party appears headed for a win that should allow him to finish Brexit.

If the United Kingdom does go through with Brexit, it could lead to an existential crisis for the United Kingdom itself.

Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party are on course for a big win in December 12th’s General Election.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is helping out Boris Johnson’s Tories. Sort of.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

With the 2019 United Kingdom General Election campaign just starting, Boris Johnson and the Tories look to be in strong shape. However, anything can happen in the next six weeks.

Rather than getting a final vote on his Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris johnson suffered another defeat.

The United Kingdom and European Union have apparently reached a new Brexit deal, but it’s unclear if Boris Johnson can get it through Parliament.

With just over two weeks to go until the deadline, the status of Brexit is entirely unclear.

As the Brexit deadline approaches, Boris Johnson’s options dwindle and a hard Brexit becomes more likely.

More on rules and how they matter (plus issues of representation).

Next week could be a crucial one for Boris Johnson’s future in power.

Boris Johnson suffers a setback in court in Scotland, including a specific finding that he misled Queen Elizabeth II when he sought her permission to suspend Parliament.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

The so-called “rebel alliance’ in the House of Commons continues to stack up wins against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but Johnson could still win in the end.

The House of Commons handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a huge loss yesterday, throwing the short-term future of Brexit into doubt.

Parliament returns for a short period tomorrow, but there’s little time for those who hope to stop Boris Johnson’s plans to force a hard Brexit.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

A newly released report leaked from inside the British Government notes that a hard Brexit is likely to be a disaster for the British economy.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

It looks as if Boris Johnson’s government could be looking to call for a snap election to he held in the immediate aftermath of Brexit.

Adding to the political headaches for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a new poll shows majority support for Scottish independence in Scotland as the United Kingdom stumbles toward Brexit.

Boris Johnson has been in office for barely a week and he’s already facing an existential political crisis.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

Boris Johnson now has the job he’s wanted since he entered politics. Whether he succeeds or fails should become readily apparent rather quickly.

As early as Tuesday, Boris Johnson could be confirmed as the winner in the race for Tory leadership. This will make him the next British Prime Minister. Not everyone in the United Kingdom is thrilled about that idea.

The next Prime Minster of the United Kingdom will be chosen by a very small segment of both the population and the Conservative Party. Does that make sense?

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving office at the end of the month.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.