Outside the Beltway

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Counter-Intelligence officials are warning that Russia is preparing another election interference campaign for the 2020 election.

A law professor asks some interesting questions, but ultimately not the right ones.

The Deputy Attorney General has some things to say about Congress, the press, and others.

Before he started his campaign for President, former Vice-President Biden reached out to Anita Hill to apologize for his conduct during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas in 1991.

The United States agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for “medical treatment” for Otto Warmbier. Did the Trump Administration actually pay the bill? They aren’t saying.

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

The President has tied his all-time low in one prominent poll.

Some say yes, others no.

Thus far, the full(ish) release provides plenty of juicy details but no real revelations.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

Virginia Democrats had a good fundraising quarter despite the scandals enveloping their top three officeholders.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

Can the ICC get him into the dock?

The other shoe has dropped.

Both major parties have claimed victory but it certainly looks like Likud will hang on.

Sanders’ suggestion is not as outside democratic norms as one might think.

The Israeli prime minister is engaging in a familiar but dangerous gambit to retain power.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

The law is not on the President’s side.

Theresa May and the UK are quickly running out of options.

Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

Many are calling for the UK Prime Minister’s ouster. But the problem is Brexit itself, not any one leader.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

Some context for ongoing discussions.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

A further attempt at explanation.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

With criminal charges and an election hanging over his head, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to the political right for support and survival.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.