Outside the Beltway

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.