Outside the Beltway

If a new campaign succeeds, Harriet Tubman could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were indicted in connection with the Birdgegate scandal today, a third plead guilty, and Christie’s Presidential ambitions are pretty much dead.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are talking about fundamentally changing what it means to be an American, and it’s a bad idea.

A sharply divided Court heard argument today on an issue that has sharply divided the nation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

Tomorrow promises to be an historic day at the Supreme Court, but it’s been a long legal, political, and social battle.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

Rand Paul has been cozying up to social conservatives lately, but he risks alienating the people most likely to support his campaign for the White House.

We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.

Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia may soon see the same battle over RFRA laws that is playing itself out in Indiana

The devil is in the details of what the legislature passes, but Indiana’s Governor has essentially conceded defeat in the battle over his state’s controversial new “religious freedom” law.

Indiana is about to become the latest state to grants special rights to religious business owners.

Thinking about comparative American struggles against tyranny.

Another tone deaf action from leading Republicans.

A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.

Unsurprisingly, Darren Wilson will not face federal charges in connection with the shooting of Michael Brown.

Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.

By refusing to stay the legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, the Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that it is ready to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

The same-sex marriage battle is on in Alabama

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

Chris Rock wants us to remember that Bill Cosby isn’t the only celebrity accused of rape.

But, hey, don’t worry, there’s nothing racial going on here. Nothing at all.

The Navy has stripped Navy veteran Bill Cosby of an honorary promotion in the wake of unproven sexual misconduct accusations.

A New York City Grand Jury refuses to indict a cop who appears from all available evidence to choked a guy to death for no good reason.

The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.

The man who shot and killed Michael Brown has resigned, but that’s unlikely to satisfy protesters who still seem to be demanding criminal charges that are never going to come.

Regardless of the outcome of the Michael Brown investigation, there are legitimate problems that need to be addressed.

A not unexpected decision from the Grand Jury that investigated the Michael Brown shooting.

For better or worse, Marion Barry was a fixture in D.C. politics for much of the 40 year period of home rule that began in 1975.

We appear to be just days away from an announcement from the Grand Jury investigating the Michael Brown shooting, and the consensus seems to be that there will be no indictment at all.

Civil asset forfeiture gives “highway robbery” a whole new meaning.

Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.

Reports from the Justice Department seem to be laying the groundwork for more disappointment for those hoping for charges against Officer Darren Wilson.

We may have our first legal challenge to an Ebola quarantine order by tomorrow

What if the Grand Jury investigating the Michael Brown shooting fails to indict Officer Darren Wilson? We may find out if newly leaked evidence is accurate.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

A collision between marriage equality and religious liberty, but it seems clear that religious liberty should win this one.

Another pre-election stay ruling from the Supreme Court.

Someone needs to remind the City of Houston that the First Amendment applies to them.

The Supreme Court has given the GOP a way out of a battle that they are going to lose anyway.