Outside the Beltway

How far should the government be able to go?

The show about nothing has a big legacy.

It’s probably not strange visitors from outer space but we can’t rule it out.

The Greatest of All Time is hanging up his cleats a year too late.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

And yes, it is political (and always has been).

The legendary football player and coach is gone at 77.

The television star increasingly known for her longevity has passed days shy of her 100th birthday.

The Hall of Fame coach and legendary broadcaster is dead at 85.

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

A breakdown of a remarkable career that’s not yet finished.

The city’s second major championship was among the most improbable.

A spectacular fall for a man who has been at the center of the football world for three decades.

Gotta clear those tabs.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Pandemic-induced recession? What pandemic-induced recession?

The New England Patriots coach lived up to the team nickname.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” will reportedly precede the “Star-Spangled Banner” in the opening week.

The coaching legend led the 1972 Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in NFL history.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

It’s literally the equivalent of buying a large pizza for the average American household.

The Washington Nationals won their first World Series in franchise history, and the first for Washington, D.C. since Calvin Coolidge was President.

Tom Brady tried to trademark the nickname “Tom Terrific.” It didn’t go so well.

The junior Senator from Massachusetts could be facing a big challenge in 2020.

Democratic voters and donors appear to be narrowing their choices for a nominee down, which could mean a short future for a lot of current Democratic candidates.

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

Bart Starr, who led the Green Bay Packers to five N.F.L. Championships in the pre-Super Bowl era and in Super Bowls I and II, has died at the age of 85.

A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a challenge by three women to their prosecution for going topless on a public beach in the Granite State.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

ESPN won’t air the National Anthem before regular season games this year, but that probably won’t stop the President from ranting about it.

In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

ESPN the Magazine has broken out the slide rule to rank the top athletes during its first two decades.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

In a healthy democracy we need not agree, nor must we finally even respect one another’s objects of devotion.  But we should exercise a salutary measure of mutual forbearance and be willing to acknowledge that no side has a monopoly on either truth or justice.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

Ezekiel Elliott got a legal reprieve late last week, but it may not last for long and it could have a big impact on the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys.