Outside the Beltway

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

An interesting but uneven debate.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

From Rod Dreher

A book out today makes an odd case.

Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, and President Trump wants to replace him with an inexperienced, obsequious toady.

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

All three children of the next head of the Army are following in his footsteps.

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

Tip O’Neill was famous for once having advised his fellow Democrats that “all politics is local.” That’s not true anymore, and that’s unfortunate.

Not surprisingly, it appears that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam, who effectively runs Saudi Arabia under his father’s rule, is behind the apparent plot against Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

With four weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump and the Republicans are continuing to stoke the divisions laid bare by the Kavanaugh nomination.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

#RulesMatter

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Another Republican Senator has broken ranks and called for hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland, as another poll shows most Americans support hearings as well.

Donald Trump canceled his speech at CPAC, but it’s unlikely to harm his campaign at all.

Conservatives are sending a message to Senate Republicans about the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and it may require them to initiate a suicidal game plan.

Hillary Clinton’s recently announced policies toward the ISIS fight are as incoherent and misguided as President Obama’s and those of her Republican opponents.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

What are the implications of the GOP winning this confrontation?

Some conservatives don’t seem too troubled by Vladimir Putin’s repression.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

The Canal made a number of impressions.

CPAC’s organizers have decided not to invite the most popular Governor in the country.

Once again, Utah’s former Governor is making sense.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.