Outside the Beltway

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

Generalities about an elusive and controversial phenomenon are unhelpful.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Musings about US politics and culture.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

A few notes from the beach.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

The attempt by Arizona’s Governor to revoke tax benefits granted to Nike in the wake of the “Betsy Ross Flag” controversy is most likely unconstitutional.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin punted once again on the question of replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, making clear that any change that does occur won’t happen until after Donald Trump is out of office.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

The White Male Great American Literary Novelist for the 21st Century is not a fan of modern realities.

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

A new poll shows Democratic nominee Doug Jones tied with twice-removed former Chief Justice Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate race, but it’s still too early to be optimistic.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are making clear that President Trump’s tweets are not official policy. At least not yet.

After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

President Trump responded to last night’s terror attacks by taking to Twitter.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

A report over the weekend raises questions about whether or not Donald Trump is changing positions on a central tenet of his campaign.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The Marine Corps has removed the word “man” from nineteen of its military occupation specialty titles, leaving only a handful of iconic instances intact.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.

The passage of a new law in North Carolina has revealed an apparent obsession among some on the right with who gets to use which restroom.

Given the stakes headed into the latest version of ‘Super Tuesday,’ last night’s Republican debate was surprisingly subdued.

Without Trump, the seventh Republican debate largely focused on Ted Cruz, who doesn’t seem to have done himself any favors. Donald Trump, meanwhile, will likely not pay any price at all for skipping the last pre-Iowa debate.

President Obama’s final State Of The Union Address was largely a recognition of the fact that his time on the world stage is quickly coming to an end.

Sarah Palin has joined such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in endorsing Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration plan.

Republicans insist that uttering the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is somehow important in the fight against ISIS and other terror networks, but it is entirely unclear what doing so would accomplish.

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

Donald Trump is back to hurling insults at his opponents, but it’s unlikely his supporters are going to care.

International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.

It’s a Donald Trump debate, where the facts are made up and the truth doesn’t matter.

I have been reading, mostly in passing, a number of pieces about an alleged new climate on college campuses in which students are raising significant complaints due to difficult or emotionally sensitive material. The latest example did not impress me.

Thwarted by the legislature, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his executive power to take action that seems directed more toward evangelicals in Iowa than anything happening in his home state.