Outside the Beltway

Here we go again.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

Competing analogies and externalities.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The degree to which the country is divided is truly shocking.

Monmuth’s latest.

Trump continues to lag.

A look at several models.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

A stroll down memory lane.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

Biden’s polling lead over Trump is historically stable.

The status quo ante is not just waiting for us around the corner.

The erstwhile Tea Party Republican is making a run for President.

Sigh.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

Greg Mankiw, an economist who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is officially no longer a Republican

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

It’s not the responsibility of the opposition party to make up for Donald Trump.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the schedule and criteria for the General Election debates. As usual, the criteria are heavily biased in favor of the major party candidates.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

Former South Carolina Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is reportedly considering an intra-party challenge to President Trump

Later today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument in a case that could upend the Affordable Care Act.

Virginia has finally repealed a dumb and unconstitutional restriction on how bars could advertise Happy Hours.

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

Is it really such a bad thing when a politician changes a long-help position on a political issue?

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.

John Kasich hasn’t shut the door completely, but recent comments seem to make it clear he’s not likely to take on the President for the Republican nomination.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ruled out what would essentially be a quixotic primary challenge against President Trump.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash is the lone Republican voice speaking out against the President, and he’s making a strong case for his position in favor of impeachment.

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans say they won’t vote for President Trump in 2020. but that’s only half the battle for Democrats

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

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination