Outside the Beltway

History has been made in more than one way.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

The Spaniard continues his quest to be the Greatest of All Time.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

As Election Day draws closer, the President is doubling down on stoking racial resentment.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

Black football players at Iowa complain they were treated differently—and also the same.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

The former VP is focused on beating Bernie Sanders but his team is looking ahead.

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

The literature on term limits is not a favorable one.

Another one bites the dust.

After an online backlash, The Hallmark Channel has reversed its decision to ban ads featuring a lesbian couple.

The Hallmark Channel caved to the complaints of a small group of so-called Christians who objected to a television commercial.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

Obvious advice is obvious.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

At least in official government documents, Japan will return to the tradition Asian style of placing the surname before an individuals given name.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

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

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

Part 1

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.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

Is it really such a bad thing when a politician changes a long-help position on a political issue?

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

This year’s graduating class at West Point includes a record number of African-American women.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

An odd bureaucratic reshuffling, seemingly out of the blue.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.