Outside the Beltway

Not Gaetz and Hegseth bad, but still, pretty bad.

Plus some thoughts on mass deportation.

Too many! Too few!

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are happy. But one man is.

We almost wrecked the economy . . . for this?

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

We’re getting weird policies almost nobody is asking for.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

A growing trend has healthcare professionals and communities concerned.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

The agency says a 1986 law overrides state restrictions.

Here we go again . . . .

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

A decades-long decline has ended.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

There are many barriers to true freedom.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

The highest court in the land issued a split decision on President Biden’s COVID policy.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

The President seems to have persuaded the progressives in his party to settle for half a loaf.

The President has lost his patience with the unvaccinated.

Despite a rising groundswell of support, the obvious solution to our crisis has not been implemented.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

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

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

A progressive idea that could win conservative support.

Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,

Another bad night for Republicans in Virginia, and another warning sign for Republicans nationally.

In the least surprising news of Election Night, Republican Tate Reeves pulled off a win in overwhelmingly Republican Mississippi.

Senator Elizabeth Warren released a more detailed version of her ‘Medicare For All” plan late last week. It leaves much to be desired.

We shouldn’t need bad arguments to sell good policies.

As widely expected, yesterday’s “jungle primary” in the Louisiana Governor’s race ended with nobody winning a majority.

Don’t worry folks, we’ll make it past that mark quite easily over the course of the new Fiscal Year.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

The top ten candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination clashed last night in a debate that made clear the different ideological directions that this race is pulling their party.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in a case that could radically impact health care coverage for millions of Americans.

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

Senators Warren and Sanders have both proposed plans to forgive student loan debt and make public colleges tuition-free. That’s easier said than done.

The participants for the two-night opening debate of the 2020 campaign season have been announced, and the candidates who were excluded aren’t happy.