Outside the Beltway

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.

An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing

Musings about US politics and culture.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Is the past still the past?

The downside to online archives of pre-print articles.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

Some pundits have high standards.

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

If you’re still carrying one of these, it’ll be a brick in three days.

The CDC is weighing changing the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

It depends on how you do the math.

Our ostensibly ally is working with our chief adversary against our interests.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Representatives Choosing Their Voters Rather than Vice Versa, Chapter 412.

Some stories worth your time.

Is media coverage of experts’ struggles to understand COVID helpful?

Voters are suppose to choose elected officials, not the other way around.

He boldly went where no nonagenarian had gone before.

Replacing the social media giant ain’t easy.

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

DC’s new area code is causing an identity crisis.

The Islamic Republic is very close to being able to fuel a single weapon.

The wonders of hindsight.

An interesting but rather misleading report from a Biden Treasury official.

Because why the hell not.

It’s not too late but it’s too late.

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

Lymantria dispar just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Magical? Impressive? Or just too much money?

NIMBY is still alive and well in the age of the Internet of Things.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

The President announced a whopping 72 initiatives to rein in corporate power and lower prices.

Critical race theory rears its ugly head yet again.

Our love for cheap goods and services requires lots of people willing to work for very little.

Some good news in the hacking wars.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The new CDC guidelines raise some serious questions.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

The least controversial subject in school is suddenly controversial.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

A credulous report on the tech giant’s altruism.

The law is out of sync with modern realities.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

An interesting but uneven debate.