Outside the Beltway

A progressive idea that could win conservative support.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

The Congressional Budget Office assesses several reform proposals.

The independent who upended the 1992 Presidential race has passed.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

This time: India.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

With the apparent failure of the coup attempt in Venezuela, what happens next?

The IRS is outgunned.

This is my shocked face.

The HUD Secretary’s practice of treating Friday as a light-duty day is just fine by me.

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

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

President Trump is now threatening to close the border if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced that the deployment of U.S. troops to the Mexican border will be extended through the end of this year.

A bad look for all concerned.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the Trump Administration’s efforts to limit the ability of migrants to claim asylum violates Federal law.

Democrats have flipped the Senate seat currently held by Republican Jeff Flake.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

Authorities have arrested a Florida man named Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Trump supporter, in connection with the wave of bombing attempts directed at critics of the President.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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

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

A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.

We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.

Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.

Tim Draper’s fantasy will finally get a vote this November.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

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

The answer is, of course, no. Really, this is a post about the wall as policy.