Outside the Beltway

Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.

Democratic House members are finding that their constituents aren’t quite as eager for impeachment as some party activists are.

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

After just a year in office, Oliver North is out as President of the National Rifle Association as the group faces an ongoing series of scandals centered around Wayne LaPierre and others.

A new poll finds that most Americans do not support impeaching the President at this time, but they also don’t believe the President on the issues of Russian interference and obstruction.

Counter-Intelligence officials are warning that Russia is preparing another election interference campaign for the 2020 election.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

First quarter economic growth came in higher than expected, but there are several caveats worth keeping an eye on.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka make it clear that the claim that ISIS has been defeated are nowhere close to being true.

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Reports yesterday had former Vice-President Biden entering the Presidential field as early as tomorrow. Those plans appear to be delayed. but an an announcement still appears to be coming.

Evidence is emerging that the Sri Lankan government had advance warning regarding potential terror attacks but failed to act on the information.

The Supreme Court has agreed to accept a group of cases dealing with the issue of whether or not existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Some say yes, others no.

The New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago metro areas are all losing people.

Thus far, the full(ish) release provides plenty of juicy details but no real revelations.

The Justice Department will release a ‘lightly redacted’ version of the 400-page report at 11 Eastern.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

US higher education is made up of far more than just the Ivies and other elite schools.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

Both major parties have claimed victory but it certainly looks like Likud will hang on.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

More turmoil in the UNC athletic program threatens Carolina’s academic standing.

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edition.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz lays to rest a pernicious idea propagated by . . . Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.

Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

The esteemed biographer on his process.

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

History’s first all-female spacewalk was thwarted by a lack of smaller suits.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

The Lawfare gang and Popehat weigh in.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

Lock them up.

A weird takedown from within the #Resistance.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

Labor law has not kept up with our changing economy.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?