Outside the Beltway

Happy Friday!

President Trump has named his pick for Labor Secretary.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Bill DeBlasio is facing criticism for the fact that he was off in Iowa on his quixotic Presidential campaign rather than being at home during Saturday’s blackout.

The victory of the U.S. Women’s team in the World Cup has renewed a long-standing argument over pay equity, but the issue is far more complicated than it seems.

The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the Lanham Act barring approval of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks as unconstitutional.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

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

The Supreme Court sent a signal yesterday that seems to indicate how it might deal with future abortion law challenges and it doesn’t bode well for pro-lifers.

There are many things to dislike about the Democratic socialist from Vermont. Hypocrisy isn’t among them.

President Trump’s stonewalling strategy suffered another legal setback in New York City yesterday.

The Toddler-in-Chief has issued an ultimatum.

A previously confidential I.R.S. memo contradicts the Administration on the issue of providing copies of the President’s tax returns.

The size of the Democratic Presidential field, combined with other things peculiar to the way Democrats pick their nominee, is leading some to wonder if we might see a brokered convention in 2020.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

Que Sera, Sera

Patrick Shanahan, who has been serving as Acting Defense Secretary since James Mattis left in December, is being selected to replace Mattis in that position.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

The Supreme Court has agreed to accept a group of cases dealing with the issue of whether or not existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago metro areas are all losing people.

US higher education is made up of far more than just the Ivies and other elite schools.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

It’s a lot harder than it looks.

While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

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.

Job growth in February was far below estimates, but we did see some solid wage growth and other signs that we’re approaching what economists refer to as “full employment.”

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.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

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.

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

The Supreme Court issued a ruling that places new limits on civil asset forfeiture by state and local government.

The shooter who killed five people in a factory in Illinois on Friday should not have had a gun to begin with.

Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.

For the first tine in nearly ten years, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Second Amendment rights.

A Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder has been sentenced to seven years in prison, but could be out in as little as three-and-a-half.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

Fifty years ago tonight, one of the most iconic photos in history was taken.

A preliminary report from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan found at least 500 Catholic Priests whose abuse of children had been covered up by Church officials.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.