Outside the Beltway

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

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

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

A mysterious conversation with a foreign leader is at the center of a controversy between the intelligence community and Congress.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

In the US, the candidate defines the party, not the other way around.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

There’s an inherent tension in our national ethos.

President Trump attacked four Democratic Congresswomen for engaging in exactly the same rhetoric that the President himself has over the years.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

The President is defending his racist tweets against four Democratic Congresswomen, calling them Communists who hate America.

Citing the so-called “Billy Graham Rule,” a Republican candidate for Governor in Mississippi is refusing to let a female reporter accompany him on a campaign ride-along.

Well, of course they are.

Christian doctrine actually has a lot to say that is of relevance to the border.

The Republican Party is ruining the country. But so are the Democrats?

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

Is her professorial skill a liability or an asset?

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

At least some segments of the “pro-life” movement seem more concerned with policing morality than they do with protecting life.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

I continue to be opposed to impeachment of the President, but I’m slowly moving in that direction thanks primary to the Administration’s own actions.

Yesterday’s press event with Robert Mueller underscores the importance of congressional testimony.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.