Outside the Beltway

New numbers show more consistency.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, may be seriously ill.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

It’s still early in the election cycle but there’s plenty for the President to worry about.

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

Two new polls released today indicate that earlier suggestions that the race for the Democratic nomination had shifted were incorrect.

A new poll has a majority of respondents saying the President is a racist. He won’t care.

Two new polls show that the President’s recent racist tweetstorms have not gone over well with Americans as a whole, but that’s unlikely to cause the President to walk them back.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are up, and Bernie Sanders is down, in the first state-level poll since the debates.

With the first Democratic debate set to begin tonight, it’s a good time to take a look at the state of the race.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

Now that women are allowed into all combat roles, the rationale for excluding them from Selective Service has evaporated.

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

Despite their rhetoric, Republicans in Congress have shown through their own inaction that they don’t really support the President’s border wall.

Herb Kelleher, who helped found an airline that revolutionized the industry thanks to his unconventional choices, has died at the age of 87.

Is it possible that the solution to the government shutdown is letting the President pretend he got funding for his border wall even though he didn’t?

Glenn Reynolds announced via his USA Today column that he has deleted his Twitter account.

A decade after being bailed out by the Federal government, the giant automaker is slashing jobs.

With one week to go before Election Day, Democrats seem well-positioned to gain control of the House while Republicans seem likely to hold on to the Senate.

More explosive devices sent to prominent Trump critics, including Robert DeNiro and Joe Biden, have been located.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

Brett Kavanaugh is expressing some regrets over his performance last Thursday, but it’s largely far too little, far too late.

Republicans have set a Judiciary Committee vote for less than a day after hearing from Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

New polling seems to show a significant shift toward Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

As the midterms get closer, the public’s perception of the President’s job performance is getting worse.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

The president has a skewed view of who is trying to enter the US.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

Now that girls are joining the Boy Scouts, the organization has quite reasonably changed its name accordingly.

Dueling data on civil service compensation belie the adage that you can’t choose your own facts.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

Descriptions of Robby Jackson as “Trump’s personal physician” mischaracterize his qualifications for the job.

If you recall your grade school civics, you already knew this.

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.