Outside the Beltway

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

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

The US is reproducing below the replacement rate.

Our missing front-pager has Tweeted.

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edition.

A lesson from Puerto Rico and further reasons why the EC is a problem.

Nein. Nein. Nein.

A reminder that over 3 million citizens have no effective influence over the federal government.

Yet another promising spring football league seems to have bitten the dust.

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

Note to the folks at Fox and Friends: Central America is not part of Mexico.

John Fund thinks I am afraid of Stephen Moore (and that I am an economist). He is wrong on both counts.

More simplism from the WH.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

History’s first all-female spacewalk was thwarted by a lack of smaller suits.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

It’s possible to conclude that Pete Buttigieg is smarter than Elizabeth Warren for reasons having nothing to do with sex.

Our most prolific front-pager hasn’t posted in two weeks. Readers are beginning to ask questions.

Lock them up.

A weird takedown from within the #Resistance.

Because of course he did.

On one level, it is rather amusing; on another is it quite insidious.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

The HUD Secretary’s practice of treating Friday as a light-duty day is just fine by me.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

President Trump has selected Kelly Knight Craft, the current Ambassador to Canada, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.