Outside the Beltway

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Happy Independence Day!

Leadership matters (as does culture).

The emotional and economic impact of the pandemic is hitting women especially hard.

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

Red lives matter.

Happy 4th!

“Sunset over Mobile Bay”

The Daily on the Russia bounty story.

I don’t see it.

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

Nike and FedEx may be able to do what Native American activists couldn’t.

Those who wish to vote for Tommy Tuberville or Jeff Sessions will have to walk to the mailbox.

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

Some incredibly thin reporting about a story that is almost certainly made up.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

A legendary comic is gone.

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

CNN has a lengthy, deeply reported piece on Trump’s phone calls to other heads of state.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

Contra the CDC, the AAP says getting kids to class outweighs the modest risk of their catching COVID-19.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

This St. Louis couple neatly summarizes what’s wrong with America.

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

Of course he did.

Another bow to the inevitable.

The Magnolia State is the last in the nation to have the stars and bars on its state banner.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

One of these things is not like the others.

An accomplished racist will no longer be honored by the university.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

Europe has the disease under control while it’s still spreading like wildfire here.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

The “Biden must pick a black woman” plea may be masking a different agenda.

Joementum.