Outside the Beltway

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the Lanham Act barring approval of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks as unconstitutional.

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 Supreme Court has ruled to keep the long-standing “dual sovereigns” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause in place.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

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

The Supreme Court let a ruling against students opposed to a school district policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity stand.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

The size of the Democratic Presidential field, combined with other things peculiar to the way Democrats pick their nominee, is leading some to wonder if we might see a brokered convention in 2020.

A new poll indicates that at least some Democrats continue to hold Biden’s 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War.

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

Stephen Moore, who has been nominated to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board by President Trump. has a history of controversial remarks about women.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

How finite is prestige?

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”