Outside the Beltway

After roughly a week of staying silent, President Trump decided last night to openly mock Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

The three-decade-old name dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav state of Macedonia remains unresolved after Sunday’s referendum.

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

The Bork hearings have come up in the context of the Kavanaugh confirmation, Some thoughts ensue.

The first significant post-primary poll of the Florida Senate race shows a dead heat between Governor Rick Scott and Senator Bill Nelson.

A new poll shows Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum with an early, but slim lead, over Congressman Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s Governor’s Mansion.

A top Vatican official is alleging that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI were both aware of previously unknown allegations of sexual abuse and chose to allow them to be covered up rather than bringing them to light.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

A Special Election tomorrow in suburban Columbus, Ohio could tell us a lot about where the midterm elections might be headed.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

Another poll shows that the vast majority of Americans do not want to see the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade overturned.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

With Justice Kennedy retiring, the new center of the Roberts Court is likely to be the Chief Justice himself.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist from the left, rode a wave of populism and public disdain for the outgoing President to a landslide win in Mexico

As Washington gets ready to fight a new battle over Roe v. Wade an new poll shows that most Americans oppose overturning that decision.

Turkey’s authoritarian leader is going to be around for a long time.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Conservatives claim to support freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but they’ve utterly failed that test when it comes to their reaction to players who peacefully and respectfully kneel during the National Anthem.

Three Executive Orders signed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday has government employees scrambling.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

For better or worse, Mike Pompeo will be confirmed as the 70th Secretary of State by the end of this week.

The Editorial Board of the Newspaper of Record urges Congressional Republicans to steady themselves for a constitutional crisis.

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

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

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

We form stereotypes about generational cohorts when they’re very young and then freeze them.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

An emerging technology will take “fake news” to a whole new level.

A few key observations on the bigger picture.

If Trump is able to insist upon a package deal or no deal at all, he may muck up his chance of policy success, but it may be the Democrats who lose politically.

President Trump has harsh words for Democrats who didn’t applaud his SOTU.

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

Democratic norms are eroding.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a second case dealing with political Gerrymandering.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.

It appears Russia attempted to influence last year’s Brexit vote in the same manner it did the 2016 election in the United States.

The Moore situation illustrates the nonhierarchical nature of US parties. This is nothing new.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents came out for an an election that can only been seen as a strong rebuke to President Trump and the Republican Party.

With less than forty-eight hours to go, the race for Virginia’s Governor is tighter than ever.

It’s been two years since John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, and he’s got a few things to say about his former colleagues and the state of American politics.

Squirrel!