Outside the Beltway

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?

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

Job growth in February was far below estimates, but we did see some solid wage growth and other signs that we’re approaching what economists refer to as “full employment.”

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.

For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.