Outside the Beltway

Because I had a lot of open tabs.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

Leftovers from last week and over the weekend.

A tough map for the Democrats.

Why was it released to the public?

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

Playing two-level games.

“Jupiter?”

Some numbers from the Emerson poll.

Some depressing stats.

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

Here we go again.

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A lot of huge investments have failed for a variety of reasons.

The market for competent centrists.

A silly workaround to an infuriating problem that won’t go away.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

Where do we draw the line?

The silliness of “generations.”

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

And if you’ll buy that, I’ll throw the Golden Gate in free.

The Biden administration has a point.

Swedish right-wing provocation and Turkish short-sightedness.

Some stories worth noting but not at great length.

“Water Colors”

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

The Supreme Court’s internal investigation was inconclusive.

The folk rock legend is gone at 81.

At what point does negligence become a crime?

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests