Outside the Beltway

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

A spectacular fall for a man who has been at the center of the football world for three decades.

A massive investment falls just short. This time.

At high noon.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” will reportedly precede the “Star-Spangled Banner” in the opening week.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

A symbolic gesture sure to backfire

In the spirit of the holiday, it’s time to eat to excess, drink adult beverages, and blow stuff up..

The ex-athlete has picked a bizarre target.

Totally respectful, am I right?

There are even higher obligations than taking care of Marines.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.

The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.

French authorities are investigating reports that Russian interference may be helping to exploit and expand the five-week-old “yellow vest” protests.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

ESPN won’t air the National Anthem before regular season games this year, but that probably won’t stop the President from ranting about it.

A new poll shows that most Americans believe that race relations have gotten worse under President Trump.

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

The first night of games in the N.F.L. pre-season included some sporadic protests during the National Anthem, and prompted a predictable response from the President.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.

A police officer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who tased an apparently compliant African-American man will not be disciplined by his department, and probably won’t face charges either.

Yes, it’s still okay to celebrate America.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

Conservatives claim to support freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but they’ve utterly failed that test when it comes to their reaction to players who peacefully and respectfully kneel during the National Anthem.

President Trump’s response to the N.F.L.’s new National Anthem policy is as narrow-minded and divisive as you’d expected it to be.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

In a healthy democracy we need not agree, nor must we finally even respect one another’s objects of devotion.  But we should exercise a salutary measure of mutual forbearance and be willing to acknowledge that no side has a monopoly on either truth or justice.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.