Outside the Beltway

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

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

The President is sending a terrible message.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

A seemingly innocent black man has been killed, sparking a wave of outrage.

The founder of Small Wars Journal passed Saturday.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

American’s online sales leader is straining under the social distancing regime.

In 2016, they were backing an extreme long-shot. Now, he’s the frontrunner.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among five fatalities.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

A political scientist argues that college-educated intellectuals are doing politics wrong.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

Rules for covering the Senate trial highlight changes in how we get the news.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a challenge for the leadership of the party he’s headed for more than a decade.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets a lesson in governing the hard way.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The Butterball Turkey Hotline still thrives even in the era of the Internet.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

South Dakota launched a new ad campaign to deal with its methamphetamine crisis. They missed the mark.

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

After just two months, Mark Sanford is dropping his challenge to the incumbent President.

Juli Briskman gave Donald Trump a one-fingered salute in a photograph that went viral. Two years later, she won election in a district that includes Trump’s golf course.

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apologized for blocking constituents on Twitter as part of a legal settlement.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

ISIS is quickly taking advantage of the abrupt American withdrawal from northern Syria.

After a close election, Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on his effort to form a government.

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.