Outside the Beltway

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.

Two youngish Rhodes Scholars turned mayors are getting covered differently.

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

The Treasury Secretary is declining to comply with a Congressional request for the President’s tax returns. Whether this is proper is a question that will have to be resolved by the courts.

Despite poll numbers suggesting otherwise, one political analyst suggests that the United States may not be “ready” for a gay President.

More Madisonian musing on the current state of our constitutional order.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

In the end, Impeachment is a political act more than a legal one. For that reason, Democrats should not pursue impeachment unless they have a reasonable chance of winning.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

It’s an interesting idea, although one fraught with moral hazard.

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.

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

A major, destructive fire hits one of the most historic churches in the world.

US higher education is made up of far more than just the Ivies and other elite schools.

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

There are even higher obligations than taking care of Marines.

Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are leading the field and Pete Bittigieg is doing surprisingly well.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

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

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

Deny them the pleasure of an angry reaction, and they’ll probably leave you alone.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

How finite is prestige?

Graham is blocking a vote on a non-binding resolution on the Mueller report.

A further attempt at explanation.

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

Pew has a new study that confirms our basic understanding of “independents.”

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

Why rational discourse seldom changes the minds of some people.

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.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

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