Outside the Beltway

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

The ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Animal House’ producer is gone at 75.

The anti-vax-and-other-stuff protest is spreading to Europe.

Our system lacks accountability.

Two unclassified after-action reports shine a new—if one-sided—light on the evacuation.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

Musings about US politics and culture.

Western intelligence agencies continue to predict an invasion under absurd pretexts.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

The veteran journalist and Fox News original is gone at 75.

“Vulcan”

Can the Misery Index be far behind?

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

The infamous duo will have to do what they were already supposed to do for a year.

Better than nothing, but still not enough.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

It’s Manchin-approved.

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

Doing the right thing on 1/6/20 doesn’t absolve him of being a key Trump enabler.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Trump’s pardon offer is just another way to propagate the big lies about the election and 1/6.

Media reporting on CDC findings is, once again, unhelpful.

Yet another grim milestone.

The longtime aggregator is now serving mostly non-news content.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Did you know that the elephant population has tripled over the last six months?

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

John Robert Lewis Hall (plus the soapiest fountain of them all).

A too-small step in the right direction.

There’s no keeping politics out of these Games.

I’m shocked, shocked, to find that this is happening here.

A scandal within a scandal.