Outside the Beltway

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apologized for blocking constituents on Twitter as part of a legal settlement.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

ISIS is quickly taking advantage of the abrupt American withdrawal from northern Syria.

After a close election, Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on his effort to form a government.

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

A bittersweet farewell to a newspaperman past his sell-by date.

Obvious advice is obvious.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

The Trump Administration is considering banning flavored electronic cigarettes. This would be a a bad idea.

Parliament is suspended for the next five weeks but it ended with Prime Minister Boris Johnson being handed historic defeats for an incoming Prime Minister.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

A wedding venue in Mississippi is citing religious beliefs in support of its decision not to allow an interracial couple to utilize their facilities.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

A Federal Judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the DNC alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Republicans have come up with a new target to blame mass shootings on, “violent video games.”

Part 2 of 2.

Less than twelve hours after the mass shooting in Texas, another one occurred overnight in Dayton, Ohio.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Kentucky teenager alleging he had been defamed by the coverage of his confrontation with a Native American man in January.

Wednesday’s Congressional testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller wasn’t exactly a ratings blockbuster.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

After weeks of protests and years of frustrations, Ricardo Rosselló, the Governor of Puerto Rico, announced last night that he will be resigning from office.

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.