Outside the Beltway

The preliminary hearing revealed a damning case against the shooter of a young black man.

Balancing social justice and criminal justice in a politically charged environment.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

How to translate understandable frustration at injustice into tangible reform?

The evidence is clear. Injustice feeds rage and rage sometimes boils over.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

A solid piece of satire.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

The “Leave it to Beaver” actor went on to a career with the LAPD.

Sigh.

CBS did a lousy job.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

An iconic and honorable Member of Congress has passed away.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

A wedding venue in Mississippi is citing religious beliefs in support of its decision not to allow an interracial couple to utilize their facilities.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

In this case, Rich Lowry’s.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

Republicans have come up with a new target to blame mass shootings on, “violent video games.”

Part 2 of 2.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

A new poll has a majority of respondents saying the President is a racist. He won’t care.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

The President unleashed another racist attack, this time on Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings.

There’s an inherent tension in our national ethos.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

The President’s approval is up and disapproval down after the latest incidents.

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.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

Well, maybe.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

A law review article written when the former was a student provides an interesting contrast.

Should the pundit class look more like America?