Outside the Beltway

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans oppose statehood for the District of Columbia.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being sued for blocking people on Twitter. She’s likely to lose the lawsuits.

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

A law professor reads too much into a cryptic concurrence.

Three new polls show significant changes in the Democratic race in the wake of last week’s debates.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.

Pete Butttigieg has spent the past week dealing with a crisis back in South Bend. How he handles it could have a significant impact on his campaign.

The Supreme Court ordered a new trial in the case of a Mississippi defendant whose trial was tainted by a prosecutor who routinely struck black jurors from the jury pool.

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

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

At least some segments of the “pro-life” movement seem more concerned with policing morality than they do with protecting life.

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

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.

Making up a Trump quote just gives cover to the real ones.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

Two weeks into his campaign, Joe Biden continues to build an impressive lead in polling at the state and national levels.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.

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 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

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

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

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

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.

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.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

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

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

For now,former President Obama is staying on the sidelines in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey Toobin speculates that Clarence Thomas could be the next Supreme Court Justice to step aside.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

If all goes well, the bill to avert another shutdown should become law today.

A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.

Late last night, the Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana abortion law from going into effect, the first significant abortion rights ruling since Justice Kavanaugh took the bench.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.