Outside the Beltway

Stephen Moore, who has been nominated to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board by President Trump. has a history of controversial remarks about women.

Putting together a fair slate of games is a whole lot harder than it looks.

The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.

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.

More simplism from the WH.

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

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

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

Before we draw broad conclusions of the reporting on the report, don’t we need to see the report?

Issue #1000 of Detective Comics is hitting the stands.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

The first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have been an all-around success.

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

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

With criminal charges and an election hanging over his head, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to the political right for support and survival.

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

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

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.

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.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

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

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

In a replay of last week, Virginia’s top Democrats are calling on a state official to resign. This time, though, it’s Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.

A man somehow got elected governor without being very good at politics.

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.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has rejoined the Republican Party, leading many to wonder if he’s considering a challenge to President Trump in 2020.

Lindsey Graham is telling his fellow Republicans that they better back the President if he decides to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

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

The Trump Administration either doesn’t realize the impact the shutdown is having on Federal workers who haven’t been paid in a month, or it doesn’t care.

Wearing Donald Trump’s famous campaign symbol creates a presumption of ill intent. Is that fair?

President Trump has backed down in his showdown with Speaker Pelosi over the State of the Union Address, but that does nothing to bring us closer to a resolution of the government shutdown.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Thoughts on politics and constitutional powers.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

As the government shutdown continues, Washington is coming to resemble a fight between toddlers. Except the toddlers have the excuse of not knowing any better.