Outside the Beltway

A team of “sensitivity readers” has taken the bad thoughts out of some beloved children’s literature.

The silliness of “generations.”

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

A new Census definition has changed classifications slightly. It doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Cities across the United States are taking the wrong approach to a crisis.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

The WSJ doesn’t like Stanford’s attempt to make its website more inclusive.

Why have Americans lost trust in their institutions?

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Thinking about a cliche that is nonetheless correct.

They’re just too awful for delicate ears.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

Apparently, more expensive versions of products are often better.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

How much say should the community have in what’s included?

A break from politics.

She? Xe? Xem? Let’s call the whole thing off.

Are you going to believe this index or your own lyin’ eyes?

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Has a franchise that’s always been political gone too far?

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

There are many barriers to true freedom.

Has the Internet made us more selfish?

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

Parents of disabled kids have successfully sued to mandate masks in schools.

A post that’s only tangentially related to cancel culture.

Generalities about an elusive and controversial phenomenon are unhelpful.

It’s that, er, time again.

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

Some of our citizens are at greater risk under relaxed mask guidelines.

People failing to treat emergencies as emergencies make matters worse.

When life doesn’t imitate art.

There’s something happening here. But what it is ain’t exactly clear.

Hesitancy is a complex phenomenon largely immune to facts.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.

A conversation in two parts.

Apparently, it’s higher than 67.