Outside the Beltway

The R&B icon is gone at 88.

A legendary actor is gone at 87.

Her emphasis on turnout has helped other Democrats but she’s a two-time loser.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

There’s an inherent tension in our national ethos.

POLITICO reports that some Democratic activists think she went too far.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

A woman who was at the center of one of the most important Supreme Court cases in American history has died at the age of 75.

The new Black Panther movie raises a variant of the central question of the superhero genre. [No significant spoilers]

The Greatest Of All Time.

People don’t much care whether information supporting their prejudices is true.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

We’ve still got a long way to go.

Evidence that George Zimmerman acted out of racial bias is completely lacking, which means the Federal Government should stay out of this case entirely.

The president says we should honor Trayvon Martin by preventing similar tragedies in the future.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Virginia has helped winnow the Republican field. You’re welcome America.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. believes the Congress is “in rebellion” and therefore President Obama should exercise extraordinary constititutional means” to implement a massive jobs plan.

Last night’s GOP debate was a two-man affair.

While Gerrymandering Congressional districts to benefit incumbents and the dominant party in the state legislature is an old game, they play it with especial intensity in Illinois.

Chicago’s next mayor will be either Rahm Emanuel or Carol Moseley Braun.

Are Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee the favorites to win the White House?

President Obama’s press conference yesterday, bitterly railing against Democrats in the Congress for being “purist” and “sanctimonious,” is brilliant triangulation.

NPR has fired Juan Williams over controversial comments about Muslims.

Should outrageous people like Pamela Gellar be invited to spread their message on national television?