Outside the Beltway

What difference at this point does it make?

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

A political scientist argues that college-educated intellectuals are doing politics wrong.

Feel free to discuss the quiz and/or share your results in the comments.

A bit more about the mechanics of the comments section.

More conversation about moderated conversations.

More on presidential nonsense with a brief diversion into blogging philosophy.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

President Trump has a huge decision to make.

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.