Outside the Beltway

An attempt at defining the conversation.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

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

Uh oh.

A feel-good story is unlikely to have a happy ending.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

Roy Moore continues to think that he is special.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

Contrary to reports, Secretary of Defense Mattis is not defying the President on his order to bar transgender Americans from serving in the military.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

Why hasn’t anyone else thought of this?

I am having a hard time seeing a system of districts based on eligible voters and not simply population.

The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

An authoritarian ego trip for all to see.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

Yet another probable rift between the U.S. and Israel over Iran.

There’s no excuse for the former NBC anchor’s lies. But there are reasons.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not running for President, and she is unlikely to change her mind on that. Nonetheless, the speculation that she is will continue for some time to come because it suits her interests and the interests of others.

Americans have wildly distorted understandings of the society around them.