Outside the Beltway

Plus some thoughts on mass deportation.

Democrats and Republicans alike are less supportive than they were four years ago.

Good news is seldom news.

The S&P and Nikkei are at all-time highs. Economists warn that it won’t last.

If we’re even bowling at all.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

The war in Israel is in danger of expanding.

The President’s support for labor and aggressive action on climate change are in tension.

A counterintuitive move.

A few people are committing the lion’s share of petty thefts in America’s biggest city.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

Some 60% of us, including 75% of our children, have been infected.

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

Even liberal states like California and Massachusetts are moving on.

The downside to online archives of pre-print articles.

That didn’t take long.

A series of mismatches mean would-be workers can’t find employment despite an abundance of openings.

The loaners, the dreamers, and schemes.

Not of governance.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

Bad journalism is not needed right now.

The first round of polls after last week’s debate has good news for the former Vice-President.

For the second time in month, the candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination will face off in a two-night debate, so it’s as good a time as any to look at the polls.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

More pressures on a region already struggling.

It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Voter turnout in primary elections in 2018 was significantly above normal levels. especially in Democratic races.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Rick Scott is pulling in impressive fundraising numbers, giving Democrats reason to worry that they’ll have another Senate seat to worry about in November.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

A better than expected jobs report for February, but wage growth slowed for the month.

America’s longest war seems likely to soon turn into America’s never-ending war.

The new GDP growth estimate shows healthy economic growth in the second quarter, but it’s unclear if it can be sustained.

After starting the year with two good months, the jobs report for March was quite disappointing.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Bernie Sanders won another primary last night, but he continues to fall behind in the race for delegates nonetheless.

Donald Trump continues to lead, while Marco Rubio surges, in the first polls out of New Hampshire since the Iowa Caucuses.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.

To lose something one has to have it in the first place. (It is pretty basic logic).

A new poll shows Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton, but within the margin of error, in New Hampshire. But a deeper examination suggests that Bernie-mentum is a mile wide and an inch deep.