Outside the Beltway

A superstar athlete’s treatment by police raises troubling questions.

Another illustration of the weakness of the American party system.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

Federal police officers continue to be immune from lawsuits.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

French authorities are investigating reports that Russian interference may be helping to exploit and expand the five-week-old “yellow vest” protests.

Nearly four years after the fact, a Chicago Police Officer has been found guilty of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Amber Guyger has been fired by the Dallas Police Department, now it’s up to the justice system to hold her accountable for her actions.

Blue feelings matter.

After four straight losses, prosecutors in Baltimore are throwing in the towel in the Freddie Gray case.

The Justice Department has launched a widespread investigation into the operation of the Chicago Police Department in the wake of the murder of LaQuan McDonald.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

At least 11 are dead and 10 wounded in an attack on free expression.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

Everything old is new again.

Oakland’s police chief, miffed at recent budget cuts, has listed 44 crimes that his officers will no longer respond to.