Outside the Beltway

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

The Congressional Budget Office assesses several reform proposals.

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.

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?

A convergence of OTB discussions.

The Republican Party is ruining the country. But so are the Democrats?

In the first poll since he entered the race, Roy Moore finds himself in third place in the race for the 2020 Republican Nomination for Senate in Alabama.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

Polls are starting to show that the number of Republicans embarrassed by the President’s rhetoric and behavior is rising. Sorry guys, it’s too late now. You broke it, you bought it.

Much to the chagrin of Republicans hoping to win back a Senate seat they never should have lost, Roy Moore is running for Senate again in Alabama.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

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.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

John Kasich hasn’t shut the door completely, but recent comments seem to make it clear he’s not likely to take on the President for the Republican nomination.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ruled out what would essentially be a quixotic primary challenge against President Trump.

Thad Cochran, who represented Mississippi in Congress for 45 years, has died at the age of 81.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash doubled down on his assertion that the Attorney General was deliberately misleading Congress and the American public.

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.

Despite opposition from the Catholic Church, or perhaps in rebellion against it, Irish voters overwhelmingly approved a new law liberalizing that nation’s divorce laws.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash is the lone Republican voice speaking out against the President, and he’s making a strong case for his position in favor of impeachment.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

An independent review of the racist photo on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook was unsurprisingly inconclusive.

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Liz Cheney can pretty much write her own political ticket right now.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

The IRS is outgunned.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

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.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

The President’s re-election fund-raising is off to a fast start.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

The White House clearly doesn’t have a plan beyond attacking Obamacare to score political points.