Outside the Beltway

Thinking about what was likely and what wasn’t.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

A large plurality of the network’s viewers think left wingers trying to make Trump look bad are to blame.

It was yuuuge! And nobody saw it!

The laying out of the case begins.

She advocated that AZ overturn its election.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

The Democratic strategist and longtime talking head is gone at 73.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

The appetite for content and clicks turns sensationalizes news that isn’t news.

A piece in The Atlantic inspires thoughts.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

Another R/D cleavage?

A new career and a pending art sale.

He will challenge Greg Abbott for the GOP nomination.

Or, you know, not.

New polling provides useful insights into the problem.

The reflections on the departed right-wing talk host continue.

The information bubble is getting smaller.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

The weirdness of Internet outrage culture.

The longtime Fox News host has re-emerged at an unusual spot.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

This isn’t what leadership looks like.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.