Outside the Beltway

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

A Washington Post columnists tries to make the case.

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

The Justice Department has reversed course and will not fight a December ruling overturning the Affordable Care Act.

History’s first all-female spacewalk was thwarted by a lack of smaller suits.

The (Acting) Secretary of Defense has issued an unconstitutional order.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Before we draw broad conclusions of the reporting on the report, don’t we need to see the report?

It’s possible to conclude that Pete Buttigieg is smarter than Elizabeth Warren for reasons having nothing to do with sex.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

A male sophomore makes two suicides in less than a week.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

Predictably, news that the investigation has ended has people on both sides cheering. It’s unwarranted.

The Friday news dump to beat all Friday news dumps.

Tragedy piled on top of tragedy.

Lock them up.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

Last November the state voted overwhelming to amend its constitution. The lawmakers they elected at the same time are sabotaging it.

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

On one level, it is rather amusing; on another is it quite insidious.

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

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

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

Some context for ongoing discussions.

Some basics on the US party system.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

A further attempt at explanation.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

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

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

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

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.

The Democratic Speaker of the House says there will be no charges against the Republican President barring an “overwhelming and bipartisan” consensus.

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

Never say I can’t admit agreement when agreement is due.

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

President Trump will ask for $8.6 billion for his border wall in his Fiscal Year 2020 budget. He’s unlikely to get it.

Why rational discourse seldom changes the minds of some people.

Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.

Not good, not easy to win.

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.