Outside the Beltway

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

Spoiler alert: This is going to be a disaster

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

The wrong solution for a real problem.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

Five months too late, we’re back to the Biden-McCarthy deal.

Electoral Count Act reforms are “hidden” in the bipartisan budget bill.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

How much is enough?

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

At least 40 Members violated the law on reporting stock transactions.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

And no, there aren’t always “two sides to every story.”

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

Our cultural divide over the pandemic is turning us into worse people.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

Rand Paul still doesn’t get it.

The COVID-19 infected Kentucky Senator defends his recent actions.

The man is a moron.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

A current defense of Trump raises an ancient political question.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

With an eye on the trade war and the 2020 election, President Trump is increasing subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

A convergence of OTB discussions.

The Kaine-Udall amendment has met its predictable end.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

More polling evidence that the public does not support Trump’s emergency declaration or his wall.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

William Barr was easily confirmed as Attorney General in a 54-45 votes that included three Democrats crossing over to support him.

It’s far too early, but Joe Biden’s advantages in these polls of Democratic voters can’t be ignored.