Outside the Beltway

Moscow continues using information warfare to sow division in Western society.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

Some examples from 2018 of the problems with single seat districts.

It isn’t about foreign policy, it is about self-serving manipulation of the public.

Three Democratic Senators are suing the Acting Attorney General, asserting that his appointment was unconstitutional.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

Yes, there can be real problems with election activities, but that does not excuse POTUS’ lies about fraud.

Trump, Scott, and their allies are not doing America any favors.

With their House majority secure, Democrats must now select their leadership team for the next two years. It’s not going smoothly.

CNN fires back in the Administration’s ongoing war with the news media.

Today in bad columns.

The NYT is trying to start a conversation.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

The issues are different than in Florida or Arizona, but the Georgia Governor’s race remains unresolved as Stacey Abrams hopes to find enough votes to force the race into a runoff.

Tip O’Neill was famous for once having advised his fellow Democrats that “all politics is local.” That’s not true anymore, and that’s unfortunate.

Bret Stephens’ piece this week adds up to not much.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Is it too much to ask for truth about basic facts from the White House Press Secretary?

Hillary Clinton is hinting about maybe running in 2020 again. Is she serious, or is this just a publicity stunt?

More explosive devices sent to prominent Trump critics, including Robert DeNiro and Joe Biden, have been located.

Minority rule and self-reinforcing cleavages are not a a healthy combination.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

President Trump is heaping praise on a Congressman who physically assaulted a reporter.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Part III is here (a lot sooner than Part II was).

The second installment of a seemingly forgotten series.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

Math rules.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

The Merrick Garland precedent is power politics, nothing more.

A quick hit and run post to provide a proper definition.

The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been in the news a lot lately, but what would it actually take to use it to remove a President from power?

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

Thankfully, they chose not to help.

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos received a very generous sentence in return for his guilty plea.

The second day of questioning for Judge Brett Kavanaugh was a bit rockier than the first, but nothing happened that seriously threatens his eventual confirmation.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

Former Vice-President Biden’s eulogy for his friend John McCain is a lesson in what has gone wrong with American politics.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Another milestone set to be crossed.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

It took less than twenty-four hours for President Trump to essentially repudiate his purported attempt to walk back the appalling comments he made in Helsinki.

Some Democrats want to compel President Trump’s translator to testify about his private meeting with Vladimir Putin. That’s a bad idea.