Outside the Beltway

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

A Pyrrhic victory in one of many cases against America’s mayor.

The chickens are slowly coming home to roost.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey has some interesting results.

When a go-to “nonpartisan” defender breaks rank does that change your opinion?

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

Kate Brown has left a parting gift for the state’s worst criminals.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

The implications of modes of interpretation.

More brutality from an ostensible US ally.

With choices like these it’s easy to understand why people take plea deals

When life doesn’t imitate art.

A thorough review of the fairness of the process will be conducted.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

Greg Mankiw, an economist who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is officially no longer a Republican

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

A Republican State Legislator in Nebraska says things that other Republicans don’t have the courage to say.

A new poll has a majority of respondents saying the President is a racist. He won’t care.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

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

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

In memos to his superiors, the British Ambassador to the United States had an exceedingly frank, and negative, assessment of the current occupant of the White House.

The Supreme Court ordered a new trial in the case of a Mississippi defendant whose trial was tainted by a prosecutor who routinely struck black jurors from the jury pool.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

Last week, New Hampshire became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Thus becoming the 21st state to do so.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

Despite similar paths to the Supreme Court, it turns out the two don’t share the same style and approach.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

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

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

When it comes to the shutdown and border wall showdown that started back in December, Donald Trump is the biggest loser.

A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.

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

Florida’s New Governor has removed the Sheriff of Broward County over his officer’s lack of response before and during the Parkland shooting.