Outside the Beltway

America’s Newspaper of Record has decided the backlash isn’t worth it.

The pro-Brexit Brexit Party and the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats both scored big wins in the United Kingdom’s E.U. elections, while the two major parties suffered big losses.

Jon Bel Edwards is a reminder that our divide is cultural, not just partisan.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

Some say yes, others no.

Cory Booker’s message of unity isn’t going over well with Democratic voters eager for a fight.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Michael Cohen pulled back the curtain and revealed much about the true nature of Donald Trump yesterday. It’s not a pretty picture.

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabby Giffords, is running for Senate in Arizona against Martha McSally.

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.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

It isn’t about foreign policy, it is about self-serving manipulation of the public.

With the recounts over we can officially say that Rick Scott will be the next Senator from Florida.

The NYT is trying to start a conversation.

Angela Merkel announced yesterday that she would step aside as Chancellor at the end of her current term. What that means for the short and long term future of Germany and Europe is unclear.

Most Americans think Justice Kavanaugh was at least partly deceptive in his response to allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and other women.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

After a long and contentious battle, Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to become the 114th Supreme Court Justice.

The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.

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.

After roughly a week of staying silent, President Trump decided last night to openly mock Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

The three-decade-old name dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav state of Macedonia remains unresolved after Sunday’s referendum.

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

The Bork hearings have come up in the context of the Kavanaugh confirmation, Some thoughts ensue.

The first significant post-primary poll of the Florida Senate race shows a dead heat between Governor Rick Scott and Senator Bill Nelson.

A new poll shows Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum with an early, but slim lead, over Congressman Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s Governor’s Mansion.

A top Vatican official is alleging that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI were both aware of previously unknown allegations of sexual abuse and chose to allow them to be covered up rather than bringing them to light.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

A Special Election tomorrow in suburban Columbus, Ohio could tell us a lot about where the midterm elections might be headed.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

Another poll shows that the vast majority of Americans do not want to see the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade overturned.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

With Justice Kennedy retiring, the new center of the Roberts Court is likely to be the Chief Justice himself.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist from the left, rode a wave of populism and public disdain for the outgoing President to a landslide win in Mexico

As Washington gets ready to fight a new battle over Roe v. Wade an new poll shows that most Americans oppose overturning that decision.