Outside the Beltway

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

Joementum.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

Always look for evidence.

If the Democrats win back the White House in November, it’ll be no thanks to men.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

The contrast could not be more clear.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

The presumptive Democratic nominee says, “They aren’t true. This never happened.”

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

And some notes on Trump’s media exposure.

Things are not looking good.

Especially for Joe Biden.

The President is learning more about the Constitution every day.

Dan Drezner makes an interesting comparison.

The 58-year-old may have a post-presidency unmatched in history.

Who knew?

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

An encouraging sign.

There’s very little upside.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

CBS did a lousy job.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

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

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The clear winner was Donald Trump.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.