Outside the Beltway

Despite Republican hopes, the tax cuts passed by Congress in December are not manifesting themselves in increased wages.

In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

Dueling data on civil service compensation belie the adage that you can’t choose your own facts.

ESPN the Magazine has broken out the slide rule to rank the top athletes during its first two decades.

A confusing new report from the Washington Post.

Americans as a whole are becoming less religious and some people are panicking about it.

A sign of hope that Alabama voters could end up rejecting the far-right theocratic politics of Roy Moore? Possibly.

Texas suffers another legal setback in its effort to pass a Voter ID law.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

Some musings on the RCP average and such.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

After grabbing a lead at the end of last year, Ted Cruz has seen Donald Trump completely reverse fortunes in Iowa with just one week to go before voting starts.

Seemingly disproving yet another round of predictions of his imminent demise, Donald Trump continues to dominate the race for the Republican nomination.

One of the nation’s preeminent polling firms is sitting out the 2016 primaries.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

Taxes on wine, beer, and spirits vary wildly from state-to-state and even within each state.

One more on this topic.

Daniel Larison is far less ambivalent about our war on ISIL than me.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

The results of the 2014 midterms should teach us some lessons about how to handle and evaluate polling.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

Is former Senator Larry Pressler surging in his Independent bid to win back his old Senate seat?

Alabamians like to exclaim, “Thank God for Mississippi.” Perhaps it’s time for that slogan to cross the Pond.

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

Despite the mythos, 95% of Americans are either Christian or unaffiliated.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

The government shutdown seems to be having an impact on the one competitive statewide race in country this year.

People who drink more coffee are less likely to kill themselves.

The AHA is calling for a six-year embargo of history dissertations.

Thanks to those new electronic cigarettes, ads for cigarettes are back on television for the first time since the Nixon Administration.

The government is changing the way it calculates Gross Domestic Product.

We rely on death certificates for epidemiology studies. But they’re incredibly unreliable.

Is the answer to the same-sex marriage debate as simple as getting the government out of the marriage business, or is it more complicated?

Could a coin like this solve the looming debt ceiling crisis?

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

Not as much learning going on as one might like, to be honest.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.