Outside the Beltway

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.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Vaccinations are not keeping up with recklessness.

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

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).

There are legitimate ethical and liberty questions but they’re outweighed by the benefits.

The fear of missing out is strong.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

The science and ethics are not the hardest part of determining who should go first.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.

The new Ford Mustang may be the harbinger of things to come.

Masklessly criss-crossing the country.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

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 new company has reinvented the communication tool that people love to hate.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

Online instruction is an inferior product. But it’s more expensive to deliver.

Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

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

The architect of the plan admits he was wrong.

Should government be taking harsher measures against smoking, car crashes, and the flu?

More Americans are out of work than at any time since the Great Depression.

He’s doubling down on hypocrisy.

It’s about damned time.

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

Some informed speculation.

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

Everything is easier with money.