Outside the Beltway

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

Everything is easier with money.

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

The Daily: “Alone Together”

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Cyber security experts are quite alarmed.

Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

Regulars beware: this is a total deviation from normal content.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

Comet 2I/Borisov originated from an unknown star system and has made its way from the cold dark of interstellar space into our neck of the woods.

A sequel to E.T. The Extraterrestrial of sorts, premiered yesterday.

The Trump Administration’s strategy in North Korea is an utter failure.

October’s jobs report came back better than expected but hardly something to cheer.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Something fun to cleanse the palate.

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

SpaceX unveiled a model of the “starship” it would send to Mars but there’s still a lot of work to do.

A somewhat disappointing jobs report for September.

Oops.

Obvious advice is obvious.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for a massive attack on an important Saudi oil facility.

The Trump Administration is considering banning flavored electronic cigarettes. This would be a a bad idea.

The parent organization of the National Weather Service issued a statement Alabama and Dorian.

The August Jobs Report came in below expectations as other economic statistics point to a slowing economy.

Another nonsense ruling on an issue that doesn’t belong in court to begin with.

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Scientists have been vastly understating the degree of global warming for decades.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

Economic analysts are growing increasingly worried that the President’s trade war could push the world economy into recession, and take the American economy along with it.

The new round of tariffs on Chinese made goods that the President announced late last week will have a particularly severe impact on consumers and retailers.

July’s Jobs Report was in line with expectations, but hardly indicative of a booming economy.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

Fifty years ago today, we were reminded of what humanity can accomplish if we put our minds to it. It seems like we’ve forgotten that over the past half-century.