Outside the Beltway

It made history in many ways.

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

The Lone Star State has enacted some peculiar new laws.

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

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

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

The confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General appeared to go very well, making confirmation essentially a certainty.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

Stop romanticizing the filibuster (and don’t appeal to the intent of the Founders).

Republicans in Congress are slavishly seeking to divert attention from wrongdoing by Donald Trump, or Russia.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

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

Dana Milbank (“Obama’s big immigration mistake”) thinks so.

The chattering class is chattering about the President’s vacation again. It really is quite tiresome.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.