Outside the Beltway

Our car culture is killing us.

Cities are lowering or doing away with longstanding requirements to provide spaces.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

The Arizona Senator runs an online thrift store in her spare time.

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Because of course it was.

Surprisingly, yes.

The weirdest goddamn story you’re likely to read today.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

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

Juli Briskman gave Donald Trump a one-fingered salute in a photograph that went viral. Two years later, she won election in a district that includes Trump’s golf course.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

Gary Johnson was a successful two-term Governor in New Mexico. Now he’s making a bid to represent the Land of Enchantment in the U.S. Senate.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

Local and federal authorities are investigating a spree of explosions terrorizing Austin, Texas.

Once again, tax “reform” won’t make it easier to prepare or file tax returns.

A month that was highlighted by the capture of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa ends with an apparent lone wolf ISIS-inspired attack in New York City

The Greatest Of All Time.

An acquittal in one of the six Freddie Gray cases, but not an unexpected one.

A setback for prosecutors in the Freddie Gray case.

The How much does a Peloton weigh? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The Walk This Way Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The Barbarians At The Gate Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

To some extent, we seem to be becoming overprotective.

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

Kevin Faulconer proves that Republicans can win in California, but not if they follow the path laid out by the party’s far right wing.

We’ve still got a long way to go.

Our eggheads isn’t as smart as they thinks.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

A federal judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill and that therefore betting money on it is not gambling.

While women are more visible at the 2012 Olympics than any past games, there are still cries of “sexism.”

Danny Lesh freely admits to stealing a bicycle–back from the thief who stole it from him.

The tinfoil hat crowd has made its way back into the mainstream.

A DC area community parted ways with the company running its traffic cameras after repeated errors of absurd magnitude.

If you haven’t experienced the joys of peddling around Germany with 15 of your closest friends while enjoying several liters of Munich’s finest, you’re too late.

How did we survive without all the molly-codding kids today get?

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.