Outside the Beltway

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.

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

A lesson from Puerto Rico and further reasons why the EC is a problem.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Labor law has not kept up with our changing economy.

Some basics on the US party system.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

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.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

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A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

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

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

The populist Democrat won’t be hosting fundraising dinners. Until the general election campaign, at least.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

The House of Representatives has begin the process of challenging the President’s recent declaration of a ‘national emergency’ at the southern border.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

The American Civil Liberties Union has joined the list of groups with lawsuits against the President’s declaration of a “national emergency” at the southern border.

Justice Clarence Thomas argues that a 55-year-old precedent should be overturned.

At this early stage of the Democratic race, it doesn’t appear that voters care very much about the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

The Supreme Court will hear a case dealing with a challenge to the Commerce Department’s decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so.

President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

Negotiations to avert another shutdown appear to have stalled over the weekend with just four days left to go before funding runs out.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a challenge by three women to their prosecution for going topless on a public beach in the Granite State.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned the President against using a national emergency to fund his border wall.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.

Is benefitting politically from romantic liaisons different than other relationships?

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

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.