Outside the Beltway

Comparing the White House’s approach to that of sports leagues on testing.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

Three negative tests have overturned an initial false positive.

A Blue Wave still looks quite likely.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

It turns out, he wasn’t hacked. (Spoiler: They’re never hacked.)

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

Thinking about what we might know on the night of the election.

Alabama’s head football coach and athletic director have both tested positive for COVID-19.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

Give him his damn respect.

The Spaniard continues his quest to be the Greatest of All Time.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

No, our topic infectious disease expert did not endorse President Trump.

Trump continues to lag.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

I couldn’t help myself.

I’m sorry, what?

A clever political gambit that raises real issues.

A surreal anniversary.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

A right-wing militia’s hairbrained scheme to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer has been foiled.

His campaign now wants more live debates.

Kamala Harris wins by not losing.

The rules for counting votes matter.

Trump’s favorite pollster has some bad news for him.

One of these really isn’t like the other.