Outside the Beltway

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

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

How finite is prestige?

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

Labor law has not kept up with our changing economy.

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.

Happy Friday.

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

Congrats to Dave Schuler on his blogiversary.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

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.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

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.

An over-the-top police response to a non-violent offense.

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.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

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.

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

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.

A mystery within a mystery . . .

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

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.

The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.

The key remains the military.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

More polling evidence that the public does not support Trump’s emergency declaration or his wall.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

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

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

Happy Friday evening.

The first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have been an all-around success.

A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

Chelsea Manning is in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena apparently related to an ongoing investigation of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.