Outside the Beltway

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

Turning a campaign slogan into policy.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Our immigration policy is out of sync with our economy.

A chilling feature from the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump fared considerably worse against a cogent opponent.

Well, that was something.

A literal Mexican stand-off.

Billions for a wall plus a likely showdown with the feds.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

The Republican frontrunner continues to use Hitler’s language, praise dictators, and lionize traitors.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

They’re not sending their best people.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

The governor of Texas vows to finish what Trump started.

The long demographic trend continues.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

An open Senate race is now much more likely to stay Republican.

More evidence that walls don’t work as well as claimed.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

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.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

A symbolic gesture sure to backfire

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

Either Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, or he thinks his supporters are dumb.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

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

Trump really has no plan about the border save for demagoging the issue.