Outside the Beltway

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Amazon has reportedly decided to split its second headquarters between an already urbanized area of Northern Virginia and the outer boroughs of New York City.

Iconic Broadway legend Neil Simon, who was responsible for hits such as “The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.

Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada Senator who was one of President Reagan’s closest confidantes outside the White House, has died at 96.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

A federal trial court has ruled the practice an unconstitutional infringement on suffrage.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

With two more weeks to go, there are plenty of “big” cases still awaiting the release of a decision.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

Donald Trump’s increasingly confrontational rhetoric regarding North Korea is leading to similar rhetoric from the DPRK, and concern among top diplomats.

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

Let the games begin.

Day One of the questioning of Judge Neil Gorsuch went very well, and it suggests that his path to confirmation is basically clear of serious obstacles.

There were 111.3 million people tuned into the Super Bowl on Sunday, slightly lower than last year.

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

Depending on what state you live in, taking a picture of your ballot and yourself on Election Day may or may not be legal.

A golf legend passes away.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Donald Trump is motivating people! The problem for Republicans is that he’s motivating them to become citizens so they can vote against him and, potentially, other Republicans.

If reports today are accurate, one of the great N.F.L. careers will come to an end this week.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

The economy is booming. Except where it’s not.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

A gunman is holed up in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs after shooting multiple people, but it’s unclear what if any motive may be involved in the shooting.

Rand Paul is promising to filibuster the budget deal when it gets to the Senate, but it’s extremely unlikely he’ll be able to do anything but delay the inevitable.

Vice-President Biden dropped another hint that suggests he might not be up to running for President.

The F.B.I. seems to be looking in to just how secure. Hillary Clinton’s private email server was while she was Secretary of State.

Low costs and regulatory barriers are attracting people to red states–thus turning them purple and blue.

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Robert Gates, the former Defense Secretary who now serves as head of the Boy Scouts Of America, has called for an end to that organizations ban on gay Scout Leaders.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

TSA abuse stories had kind of disappeared from the news, but they’re back now in a big way.

Nebraska and Oklahoma are suing Colorado over the Centennial State’s decision to legalize marijuana, but they don’t seem to have much of a case.

The U.S. Government is looking for lawyers willing to work for free.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

In addition to gains at the national level and in Governor’s races, the GOP also saw more gains in state legislatures around the country.

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments do not prevent the police from compelling you to unlock your phone if you used fingerprint scan technology to lock it, Virginia Judge has ruled.

States may not add to Federal requirements for voter registration, the Court rules. Which makes perfect sense.

Two states and the nation’s capital could have legal marijuana after Tuesday’s elections.

Lawsuits against the theater where 12 people were murdered in 2012 may go forward.