Outside the Beltway

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

An interesting but uneven debate.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

A myriad of possible explanations.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

The Electoral College is once again having the opposite effect of what its defenders claim.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

A new company has reinvented the communication tool that people love to hate.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

Should government be taking harsher measures against smoking, car crashes, and the flu?

The venerable magazine is following industry trends. Is the billionaire owner a monster?

Or just a bump in the road?

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

We seem to be in a new reality. Will readers accept it?

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

(Or not. Part 1,276,524).

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

America’s mayor talks like a snake oil salesman/conman.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Connecticut filed by the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

A big haul for the GOP.

Bernie Sanders has slipped in the polls but retains his ability to raise money.

Canada is headed for a new election at the end of October as Justin Trudeau finds his government daling with a scandal.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

After weeks of protests and years of frustrations, Ricardo Rosselló, the Governor of Puerto Rico, announced last night that he will be resigning from office.

Volkswagen recently announced that it was ending production of one of its most famous and recognizable models. The last Beetle rolls off the assembly line tomorrow.