Outside the Beltway

“Soft and Sharp”

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

A Pyrrhic victory in one of many cases against America’s mayor.

The inevitable has happened.

Steamboat Willie is about to be ripe for exploitation.

A shameful farce.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

A never-ending saga of politicians choosing their voters.

The highest court has agreed to expedite a ruling on a novel question.

An unusual all non-politics edition.

The system isn’t very good.

The theory of the Internet clashes with its reality.

World opinion and American opinion diverge significantly.

“Sunset in the San Diego Bay”

McHenry has no more terms to give to his country.

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.

He faces up to 17 years in prison.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around any more.

A television icon is gone at 101.

400-plus general and flag officer promotions went through almost instantaneously.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The headline wrote itself.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

“Up from the Mine”

Sorry, Senator Rubio.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court is gone at 93.

So says a unanimous DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel.

The unworkable Republican caucus is about to get less workable.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.