Outside the Beltway

Another Federal Judge has dealt a legal blow to President Trump’s effort to shut down the DACA program.

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is running for a third term under a dark ethical cloud. That probably won’t matter.

The President is generating so much outrage on a daily basis that we’re missing important stories.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.

Robert Mueller is telling the President’s lawyers that Trump is a “subject” of his investigation, but not a “target,” that’s not as significant a distinction as it may seem to be.

Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.

Stephen Hawking possessed one of the greatest minds in history, but he will likely be most remembered for not letting a debilitating disease stop him from contributing to our understanding of the universe.

A majority of Americans say their lives are not “disrupted” by the time change. They’re wrong.

Some interesting statistics.

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.

Facts are stubborn things.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

President Trump’s comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War reveal something about how he thinks, and it’s not good.

Looking beyond FiveThirtyEight

A new study debunks an old idea.

Justice Sotomayor argued last week that we ought to look somewhere other than just the Courts of Appeal, the Ivy League, and the Northeast for Supreme Court Justices. She’s right.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

With less than three weeks to go before voting starts, the Republican candidates for President clashed in their most contentious debate so far.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

The My Pet Gloat Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

Public support for marijuana legalization continues to rise. As with the marriage equality movement, it’s obvious where this will end, The only question is how long it will take to get there.

Senate Democrats successfully blocked a final vote on the Iran Nuclear Deal, meaning that Congressional debate on the matter is effectively over.

Another poll shows that most Americans, and even most Republicans, support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Based on a recent poll, it doesn’t appear that Democrats are all that eager for Vice-President Biden to challenge Hillary Clinton.

It will be some time before sanity prevails in the GOP, but slowly but surely Republicans seem to be becoming less socially conservative.

A new Gallup poll puts support for same-sex marriage above 60% for the first time ever.

Do we really want to put another first-term Senator with no executive experience in the Oval Office? Because beyond the mere legal requirements, it does not appear that Ted Cruz is qualified to be President.

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

Support for legalizing marijuana continues to grow slowly but surely.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

A surprise move from Governors Christie and Cuomo that sounds like a good idea but may not be as effective, or legal, as it sounds.

Individual polls are likely to be volatile, so don’t pay too much attention to them.

Two weeks after it seemed to be tightening, there are signs the battle for control of the Senate may be moving in the GOP’s direction.

A majority of Americans don’t care very much who controls Congress.

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

A new poll shows that Americans are divided over Israel’s actions in Gaza, but this most likely will not impact relations between the two countries.

Could a transcription error be changing our understanding of America’s founding document?

More bad news for the Tea Party.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wonders with some irritation “Why Henry Kissinger Never Goes Away.”

There are more self-identified Independents in the country than at any time in the past two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. And it’s mostly at the expense of the GOP.