Outside the Beltway

Another bill doomed to die.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

“Painted Evening”

An aggressive but expected move.

It’s the least I can do—and the most.

What was once impossible, then inevitable, has now happened.

The state of the union is . . . not good.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

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

Some 2024ish stuff and other tidbits.

Stuttgart is catching up with Detroit.

Affluence comes with a cost.

A natural disaster has compounded a man-made one.

The primary calendar debate shows, yet again, that parties don’t fully control candidate selection.

South Carolina and Georgia win! Iowa loses! New Hampshire whines!

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

The science-education gap.

You be the judge.

ChatGPT is just the latest example of a perverse phenomenon.

“Orange Sunset”

A long-form podcast recommendation.

Cheap, big, fast: pick two.

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

Someone has stepped up to challenge former President Trump.