Outside the Beltway

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.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

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

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

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

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

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.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

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

President Trump has selected Kelly Knight Craft, the current Ambassador to Canada, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

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

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

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

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

The ignominious saga of Anthony Weiner appears to have reached its end.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so.

Thanks mostly to political opposition that misrepresented the nature of the deal it had made, Amazon has abandoned plans to locate parts of its new headquarters in New York City.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

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.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabby Giffords, is running for Senate in Arizona against Martha McSally.

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

Negotiations to avert another shutdown appear to have stalled over the weekend with just four days left to go before funding runs out.

And a reminder about how little the current POTUS understands.

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.

Another Friday, another political mess for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

The cases of Ralph Northam and Mark Herring raise a question of when, if ever, something we did in the past should follow us for the rest of our lives.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

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.

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