Outside the Beltway

Worrisome news for an American icon.

Elizabeth Warren’s comments at an LGBT rights forum late last week were cheered by the audience, but some Democrats are raising concerns about their impact on the General Election.

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

Bart Starr, who led the Green Bay Packers to five N.F.L. Championships in the pre-Super Bowl era and in Super Bowls I and II, has died at the age of 85.

Yet another promising spring football league seems to have bitten the dust.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

Welcome to the weekend!

Welcome to Friday.

Happy Friday.

Welcome to Friday.

Some examples from 2018 of the problems with single seat districts.

Trump’s words matter.

Bernie Sanders could find repeating the success of 2016 in 2020 may not be so easy.

After a multi-week hiatus, Happy Friday!

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

Happy Birthday, America.

President Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees consists mostly of conventionally conservative, well-qualified, jurists.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

No flowers this week.

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.

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

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

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

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

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

President Trump has formally endorsed an accused child molester for the United States Senate.

President Trump put his thumb on the scale for Roy Moore, ignoring the allegations of harassment and sexual abuse that have been made against the candidate.

Could the tide be turning in the Alabama Senate race against Roy Moore? At least some polling indicates the answer could be yes.

The charges against Roy Moore continue to mount as national Republicans continue to push back against him.

Another Alabama woman accuses Roy Moore of sexually assaulting him when she was a teenager.

Roy Moore’s most die-hard defenders are living in a world of their own, and it’s unlikely they’ll change their minds.

A new poll shows Democratic nominee Doug Jones tied with twice-removed former Chief Justice Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate race, but it’s still too early to be optimistic.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

A quick succession of events this morning means that Theresa May will become Britain’s Prime Minister far sooner than anticipated.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.

Jason Kottke points me to Stan Carey’s summary of Jack Grieve’s study of regional variations in swearing patterns across the United States.