Outside the Beltway

A leading conservative makes a truly bizarre defense of the President.

Florida’s New Governor has removed the Sheriff of Broward County over his officer’s lack of response before and during the Parkland shooting.

A Federal Judge has ruled that neither the Sheriff’s Office nor the School Board had a specific duty to protect individual students during the shooting last February in Parkland, Florida.

The Trump Administration is preparing a policy change that will essentially define transgender Americans out of existence.

Not surprisingly, it appears that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam, who effectively runs Saudi Arabia under his father’s rule, is behind the apparent plot against Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

Another step forward in the seemingly unstoppable movement toward nationwide legalization.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.

We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

Rest in Peace, Lois Lane.

A writer at National Review is proposing a compromise on the issue of transgender rights. Needless to say, many conservatives aren’t very happy about it.

Travis Reinking shot four people dead in Nashville over the weekend with a gun that he wasn’t supposed to have access to. Thanks to what seem to be loopholes in existing gun laws, he had one anyway.

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

Descriptions of Robby Jackson as “Trump’s personal physician” mischaracterize his qualifications for the job.

New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.

Within hours after the new Florida gun law was signed by Governor Rick Scott, the National Rifle Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to strike it down.

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

President Trump is pressing the idea of arming teachers to stop shootings in schools.

Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer who was a leading fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s campaigns, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican political donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.

Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.

From the F.B.I. on down, there were multiple warnings that could have prevented Wednesday’s tragedy in Parkland, Florida.

Congress seems likely to pass a budget deal today that will massively increase spending, putting to rest once and for all the rank hypocrisy of Republicans when it comes to claims that they are “fiscally conservative.”

Two weeks later, it’s still unclear what caused a false missile alert to be sent out in Hawaii.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Another mass shooting.

Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge and reduction in rank, but will not serve time in prison.

Sixteen Senators are backing a single-payer system. Another forty-four to go.

A public intellectual is getting the help he needs.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

The latest CBO score for the American Health Care Act is bad news for Republicans.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

Another major change for the Boy Scouts.

Not surprisingly, Dylann Roof received a sentence of death for the murder of nine people at a historic African-American church.

Rest in Peace, Princess. May the Force be with you.

The Federal Judge presiding over Dylann Roof’s murder trial suggested late last week that Roof may not presently be competent to stand trial. This does not mean that he’ll be set free, though.