Outside the Beltway

A vaccinated 75-year-old is as likely to die as an unvaccinated 53-year-old.

We have good reason to believe that a longtime member of the OTB community has passed.

Thoughts on how we think.

A follow-up to yesterday’s analysis.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

What malarkey is this?

Is the debate over the cost of the “infrastructure” bill a distraction from its content?

Rural-urban is now a bigger divide than North-South.

A new story archetype is all too common.

The collapse is not his doing. But he’s accountable for the poor planning.

The postmortems are well underway.

The long demographic trend continues.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

We’re hurting the feelings of those trying to destroy the country.

Most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

COVID vaccine hesitancy is just the tip of the iceberg.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

The longtime OTB front-pager has passed far too soon.

The rate at which Americans are getting COVID shots is slowing rapidly.

What we know about those arrested for the 6 January insurrection.

Conservatives have lost it one generation at a time.

Some people claim there’s a woman to blame.

For years, American troops fought a ‘forever war’ to delay the inevitable. It’s now coming.

Critical race theory rears its ugly head yet again.

Yet more evidence that we’re a nation divided.

You know, some light weekend thoughts.

Well, nothing of course.

A veteran health reporter says the end is near. But there’s a huge caveat.

Even the smartest designers can’t anticipate all the flaws with the rules they write.

I think this underscores the problem with the 60-vote requirement.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

A quick lesson about American parties.

Here we go again.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

The latest bogey man is likely not well understood.

The least controversial subject in school is suddenly controversial.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Bill Clinton’s strategist thinks his party needs a wake-up call.

Another early COVID myth has been shattered.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

Are we thinking about job training all wrong?

Science, politics, and social norms intersect in some really strange ways.

Rogue cops, racial profiling, tainted cases, and the lack of consequences.

The semantic debate is obscuring the actual public policy issue.

There’s no voting in baseball.

We can all agree that it’s important but not what it is.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to improve the system.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

Competing analogies and externalities.

The Excelsior Pass is the nation’s first. Will it start a trend?