Outside the Beltway

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

The future Supreme Court Justices had a lifelong relationship.

With one week to go before Election Day, Democrats seem well-positioned to gain control of the House while Republicans seem likely to hold on to the Senate.

At least for the moment, the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court appears to be helping Republicans rally their base for November. The question is whether it will last after the fight is over.

By popular demand . . .

As expected, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Chinese goods yesterday, and China quickly retaliated.

A new round of Congressional Ballot polls seems to put Democrats in a strong position for the ‘blue wave’ they’ve been hoping for all year.

Another day, another plea agreement in the Mueller investigation. This one could prove to be problematic for the President.

Republican Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in a Special Election in Ohio. Even if he wins, though, the way this election played out does not bode well for the GOP in November.

New polling shows that the ground looks fertile for Democrats in the fall.

There is a general anti-immigrant current in this administration.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

An inordinate amount of cruelty is being perpetrated in the name of border security. It’s only partly the fault of the current President.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.

If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.

The long-time public radio host has died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

Uh oh.

A feel-good story is unlikely to have a happy ending.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

Roy Moore continues to think that he is special.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

Contrary to reports, Secretary of Defense Mattis is not defying the President on his order to bar transgender Americans from serving in the military.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.