Outside the Beltway

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.