Outside the Beltway

The Sunday morning edition of our biweekly invitation to go off topic.

The Wall Street Journal tries, and fails, to defend President Trump’s indefensible veto of the Congressional resolution regarding the war on Yemen.

Pete Buttigieg is getting a lot of attention for a relatively unknown candidate. but it’s unclear if it can last.

Some say yes, others no.

Cory Booker’s message of unity isn’t going over well with Democratic voters eager for a fight.

The New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago metro areas are all losing people.

The Vermont socialist likes to invent rights that don’t exist.

The DOJ failed to apply best practices, doing a disservice to researchers.

Happy Friday afternoon.

Expert analysis from expert analysts

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

Maybe there was a better way to get his point across?

Pledges from wealthy men to help rebuild Notre Dame cathedral after a devastating fire is generating backlash.

Thus far, the full(ish) release provides plenty of juicy details but no real revelations.

The Justice Department will release a ‘lightly redacted’ version of the 400-page report at 11 Eastern.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

Virginia Democrats had a good fundraising quarter despite the scandals enveloping their top three officeholders.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

Putting together a fair slate of games is a whole lot harder than it looks.

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.

There’s a lot of money already chasing the 2020 presidential election.

The mid-week edition of our free-for-all.

The White House appears to be preparing for the worst when it comes to the nominations of Herman Cain and Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

Roy Moore has not said that he’s running for Senate again in Alabama, but he’s already threatening to up-end the race for the GOP nomination.

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

A very strange campaign trail gambit from India’s prime minister.

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

The President’s re-election fund-raising is off to a fast start.

Ending an eleven-year drought, Tiger Woods is back on top at a major tournament.

So far, Beto O’Rourke’s campaign has been far more about image than substance.

The story is shifting, which makes me even more suspicious.

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

More pressures on a region already struggling.

It’s that time again.

Let’s just say that he isn’t impressed.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

Checking in after an extended absence.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

The US is reproducing below the replacement rate.

Can the ICC get him into the dock?

Our missing front-pager has Tweeted.

Happy Friday!

A shout-out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia.

The other shoe has dropped.