Outside the Beltway

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

Despite the relatively strong economy, President Trump and many other Republicans are relying on the politics of fear to drive voter turnout on Tuesday.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

Trump’s trade war will claw back 25% of the growth in GDP, slightly more than 20% of the wage growth and more than wipe out all the jobs his tax cuts would provide.

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

In an election that pretty much everyone agrees was illegitimate, Nicolás Maduro has won a second term as Venezuela’s President.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.

Dan Drezner notes some challenges on this topic, and I add some of my own thoughts.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

While the President of the United States continues to create chaos, Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China.

Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Bernie Sanders’ refusal to admit that his campaign is over is costing you up to $38,000 per day.

Should Donald Trump be classified as a fascist?

In addition to doing everything she needed to do last night, Hillary Clinton also destroyed whatever logic remained for a Joe Biden candidacy.

Rand Paul is one of the few Republicans who seems to be evaluating the new policy toward Cuba through something other than an outdated Cold War perspective.