Outside the Beltway

The GOP’s hold on the Bob Corker’s Senate seat in Tennessee may be in jeopardy.

With Martha McSally pulling off a decisive win, Arizona Republicans managed to avoid the disaster that likely would have occurred had either Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio won last night.

A new government report indicates that President Trump’s border wall will cost billions more than initially projected. And Mexico still isn’t going to pay for it.

A new study claims voter ID laws may disenfranchise the demographic, potentially swinging several Congressional races.

Some considerations on the politics of Roe v. Wade.

A controversial name is disappearing from one small stretch of road.

Trump’s former Campaign Manager mocked a ten-year-old girl with Down’s Syndrome who was taken away from her parents.

Republicans are at least a bit more confident that they’ll hold on to the Senate this year.

Earlier this week, the Illinois legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. What’s unclear is if this act has any meaning at all.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

A Federal Judge in Texas has ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is barred by Federal Law. Legally speaking, this is a tenuous argument at best.

More whimsical than most of my selections but we could use that right about now.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

Mississippi has passed a law that seems designed to directly challenge the underpinnings of Roe v. Wade.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

An artist you’ve almost certainly heard but probably never heard of.

From the F.B.I. on down, there were multiple warnings that could have prevented Wednesday’s tragedy in Parkland, Florida.

Two classic pieces of American Literature have been banned from the curriculum in Duluth, Minnesota. This is a mistake.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.

The final version of the tax bill appears to be on track for passage, but the devil is in the details.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

The Washington Post exposes another James O’Keefe fraud.

Even a ceremony honoring American heroes wasn’t immune from President Trump’s habit of attacking racial minorities.

He had more than three dozen Top 40 pop hits through the 1950s and early ’60s, among them ”Blueberry Hill,” ”Ain’t It a Shame,” “I’m Walkin’,” “Blue Monday” and “Walkin’ to New Orleans.”

The school district in Biloxi, Mississippi has removed ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th-grade reading list because it “makes people uncomfortable.”

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

The battle over Confederate statues that was resurrected by the violence in Charlottesville is off the front pages, but that doesn’t mean it’s over quite yet.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

One month in, some Trump supporters are starting to wonder if he will actually deliver on what he promised.

After a year long experiment, Playboy is bringing nudity back.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Mississippi tried to provide special protection to opponents of same-sex marriage and transgender rights. A Federal District Court Judge, properly, finds the law to be unconstitutional.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

The Greatest Of All Time.

Oklahoma’s Republican legislature passed a clearly unconstitutional bill outlawing abortion in the state.

In an unprecedented move that reeks of desperation, Ted Cruz is naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate before the primary process has even ended.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

The passage of a new law in North Carolina has revealed an apparent obsession among some on the right with who gets to use which restroom.

Hillary Clinton scored another big win in New York last night, putting her closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, and causing Bernie Sanders’ campaign to make even less sense.