Outside the Beltway

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.

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.

More pressures on a region already struggling.

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

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

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

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

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edition.

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

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

The Justice Department has issued a damning report.

A reminder that over 3 million citizens have no effective influence over the federal government.

It now appears that the Attorney General is keeping publicly-releasable information hidden away longer than necessary.

Six weeks is a very long time in American politics.

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.

Findings of “foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct” were dismissed.

Trump’s threat will not make things better (and the notion of actually closing the border is insane).

Trump declares he will end aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

More simplism from the WH.

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

As a no-deal Brexit becomes more likely, the EU is taking things personally.

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.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

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

Issue #1000 of Detective Comics is hitting the stands.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is cutting short his US trip to deal with what his government is calling a Hamas attack.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

Institutions matter. (No, seriously, they really, really matter).

The Friday news dump to beat all Friday news dumps.

Lock them up.

A weird takedown from within the #Resistance.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

On one level, it is rather amusing; on another is it quite insidious.

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?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.

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

Not good, not easy to win.

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

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

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.”

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.