Outside the Beltway

Some reflections

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

Yesterday showed that Biden understands the “dignified” part of politics.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

You can’t make this stuff up.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

Social media makes the line much harder to draw.

Another sign of the dissent of the GOP into madness.

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

At high noon.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

A trend continues.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Either democracy is sacred, or it’s not.

Sigh.

Up is down. Down is up.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

Sorry, UC Irvine, as long as Navarro is on the faculty, no donations from this graduate.

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Will we ever be satisfied?

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

Black football players at Iowa complain they were treated differently—and also the same.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

The hopes of football in the fall are fading fast.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

Joementum.

Something significant was going to happen to Tulsa. Who could have predicted a genre shift?

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

The Senator from Minnesota is no longer a candidate for Vice President.

Balancing social justice and criminal justice in a politically charged environment.

This is more about structural conditions than it is about the GOP.