Outside the Beltway

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

Despite opposition from the Catholic Church, or perhaps in rebellion against it, Irish voters overwhelmingly approved a new law liberalizing that nation’s divorce laws.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash is the lone Republican voice speaking out against the President, and he’s making a strong case for his position in favor of impeachment.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

An independent review of the racist photo on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook was unsurprisingly inconclusive.

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Liz Cheney can pretty much write her own political ticket right now.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

The IRS is outgunned.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.

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

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

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.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

The President’s re-election fund-raising is off to a fast start.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

The White House clearly doesn’t have a plan beyond attacking Obamacare to score political points.

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Pew has a new study that confirms our basic understanding of “independents.”

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

A North Carolina Congressional Election that was tainted by Absentee Ballot Fraud will be redone.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

The National Debt officially topped $22 trillion, marking a $2 trillion increase since President Trump took office.

The right has spent a seemingly inordinate amount of time focusing on relatively powerless Members of Congress.