Outside the Beltway

A television icon is gone at 101.

Most no longer believe it’s possible to get ahead through hard work.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

The legendary football player and pitchman is gone at 80.

Americans have largely stopped using checks and are rapidly doing the same with cash.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

One weird trick could save us from Trump.

A counterintuitive move.

They average more than any other occupation and considerably more than their European counterparts.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

It really is rife with problems.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

Well, that de-escalated quickly.

Young Americans are increasingly ruling out those of the other party.

Separating rhetoric from action.

Tuberville claims he was taken “out of context.”

A columnist argues his failed launch was emblematic of a larger problem.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

Cities are lowering or doing away with longstanding requirements to provide spaces.

Americans are losing confidence in the bargain.

People are leaving our cities for the suburbs. But not on an equal basis.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Some Democrats are angry!

A Hollywood star is gone at 82.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

The Supreme Court may revisit a controversial criminal justice ruling.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

Would bypassing politicians altogether make the system more just?

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

Apparently, Charles III is quite well off.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

The man most famous for his turn on “Leave it to Beaver” has passed from liver cancer aged 77.

Paywalls are not our problem.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

A splendid idea but why stop there?

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot