Outside the Beltway

A massive memorial service showed two divergent paths forward.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Reality is easier to ignore if you just pretend it isn’t there.

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

Restricting those who report on the Pentagon.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Data? How quaint.

As well as the politics that have followed.

When empathy goes too far.

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

Cancel culture on steroids.

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

He has a solution for homelessness.

Yes it was said. No the context doesn’t make it better.

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

Birds of a feather and all that.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

More signs of flaws in the Trump economy.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?

Can Democrats do anything?

A student, her cell phone, and yet more authoritarianism in contemporary America.

The Shadow Docket strikes again.

Another win for big donors.

Trump’s lack of focus may spare us the worst outcomes in this one instance.

Air Force honors for Ashli Babbitt.

If President Trump sends unwanted military force into American cities, the one thing we should not act is surprised.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

E-I-E-I-O

The August jobs report was not good.

Sand in the sheets of civil society.

It is unusual and a problem.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

Stephen Miller and Fox News.

Secretary Noem strikes again.

Former VPs get only six months of protection?!

Town hall meetings are a relic of a different age.

Wildly unpopular policies in hyperpolarized times.

Following the Dear Leader.

Since I was thinking about 2016

Allegations that DOGE put Social Security info on an unsecured server.

If any other president…