Outside the Beltway

Cruelty with compound interest.

A morally right but politically fraught move.

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

Apparently, Making Germany Great Again is controversial.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

And this doesn’t even clear them all!

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

The trial judge had a conflict of interest.

The nation’s highest court has gone all woke.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

It’s the spirit of the season.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

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

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being sued for blocking people on Twitter. She’s likely to lose the lawsuits.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.