Outside the Beltway

The slow Alaska count came out as expected.

The early reaction was premature.

He needs one more state to hit the magic 270.

A FiveThirtyEight-inspired message from the Democrats doesn’t compute.

Disconnected representation in action.

A desperate re-election gambit that has no impact on the outcome.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

The President has hit rock bottom.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.

We’re going to make history one way or another in November.

The 45th President polls worse than other prominent Republicans.

Lock her up?

The Air Force’s use of Trump hotels predates his presidency—but is still highly problematic.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

On the Sunday shows today, one of the President’s top aides insisted that the Administration is seriously looking at the idea of buying Greenland even though it isn’t for sale.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

In contrast to the idea of granting statehood to the District of Columbia, the American public appears to strongly support statehood for Puerto RIco.

After a series of line item vetoes, the University of Alaska is facing a 41% cut in state funding.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

Anchorage had record high temperatures yesterday.

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s sex offender registry violates due process protections in the state and Federal Constitutions.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

A perfectly reasonable initiative with a significant downside.

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

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

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.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

The White House isn’t ruling out the idea of a second government shutdown, but Senate Republicans have other ideas.