Outside the Beltway

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

Emotional testimony from police will kick off the event.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

When he said he wouldn’t sign it if it wasn’t accompanied by a second bill, he wasn’t implying that he would veto it if it wasn’t.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

A meaningless gesture that’s long overdue.

It passed the Senate unanimously.

He’s in the minority but promises to start obstructing again if that changes.

The piling on continues.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

Speaker Pelosi and House Republicans are waging separate battles with science.

A quick lesson about American parties.

Our political leadership is just too damn old for our good.

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

The trends over the last half century are really something.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

They were “disrespectful to the rule of law.”

Look at who’s lined up against H.R. 1.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.