Outside the Beltway

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.

How the West Virginia Democrat came to vote for the stimulus bill.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

As we approach the new year, the virus is at its peak.

Too little, too late.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

An American hero is gone.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

The hopes of football in the fall are fading fast.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Cyber security experts are quite alarmed.

Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

As he has in the past, President Trump has backed away from support for any gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

The Congressional Budget Office assesses several reform proposals.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

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.

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.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

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

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.

William Barr was easily confirmed as Attorney General in a 54-45 votes that included three Democrats crossing over to support him.

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

Historical numbers, but still a very male chamber.

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

Democrats have flipped the Senate seat currently held by Republican Jeff Flake.

For better or worse, here are my projections for the midterm elections.

With less than forty-eight hours to go until voters head to the polls, the odds are pointing to a Democratic House and a Republican Senate.