Outside the Beltway

It’s a valid question, but one should also be careful about drawing conclusions based on how a person in Trump’s position acts.

As expected, a Republican won the Special Election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, but it’s not a win Republicans should really be celebrating.

Republicans are planning on pushing judicial nominees through the Senate in case they lose control in November. Meanwhile, the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy raises the stakes.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.

Supporters of Roy Moore tried to bribe the attorney for a woman accusing the former Senate candidate of sexual assault when she was just fourteen years old into repudiating his client.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

As we wait for “an all-out snowstorm for the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC-to-Boston corridor,” a storm has already hit back home.

The near-impossible happened last night, demonstrating why March Madness is the most exciting and most absurd way to pick a champion.

Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

A majority of Americans say their lives are not “disrupted” by the time change. They’re wrong.

On OTB’s subjective, inconsistent enforcement of its policies designed to promote civil discussion.

What the heck is going on in Kentucky and Tennessee?

My former home state executes more people per capita than any other state in the union. It has not gotten much better at it.

Witnesses say another student was “showing off his gun.”

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

Two classic pieces of American Literature have been banned from the curriculum in Duluth, Minnesota. This is a mistake.

President Trump spoke up about the spousal abuse charges against his former Staff Secretary Rob Porter. His response was entirely predictable.

Donald Trump has blocked the release of a memo prepared by House Intelligence Committee Democrats to rebut the Nunes memo. It’s hard not to see this as a blatantly partisan move.

The Rob Porter story, which is quickly becoming the Rob Porter scandal, tells us a lot about the Trump White House, and none of it is good.

Contrary to the claims that were made by conservatives and Trump supporters before its release, the memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes has done nothing to undermine the Russia investigation.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

After spending much of 2017 trying to do it, Republicans are giving up on any effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the midterms.

This is not unreasonable.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

With less than two days to go, the prospects for Congress finding a way to prevent a government shutdown aren’t looking good.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Roy Moore continues to think that he is special.

Roy Moore isn’t giving up, but he can’t stop the inevitable.

As we near the end of the year, the President’s job approval numbers remain at historically low levels, and there’s no sign that they’ll improve in 2018.

More good poll numbers for Democrats as we headed into 2018.

A Trump judicial nominee who could not answer basic legal questions in a hearing last week has withdrawn his nomination, but this is likely to happen again unless the Administration fixes some obvious flaws in its selection process.

Some Democratic Senators are suggesting that Al Franken should reconsider his decision to resign from the Senate.

Let’s not forget how unique the Moore-Jones contest was.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

As he nears the one-year anniversary of his Inauguration, President Trump is getting increasingly bad reviews from the public.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

House and Senate Republicans say they have reached agreement on a final tax bill, and Democrats are engaging in an effort to delay a vote in the Senate until Doug Jones can be seated.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.