Outside the Beltway

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

With choices like these it’s easy to understand why people take plea deals

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

It doesn’t look like the Progressive wing is uniting any time soon.

Playing nice? Or setting up a fight?

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

The New York Times has obtained about ten years worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the late eighties to early nineties. They don’t tell us much that we didn’t already know.

California is the latest state to try to force all Presidential candidates, including the President, to release their tax returns as a condition for getting on the ballot. It’s not at all clear that this is permitted under the Constitution.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

The emergence of a silly talking point.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

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

Maryland’s legislature is considering a law that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns. It’s probably not Constitutional.

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.

A true legend in legal journalism is moving on.