Outside the Beltway

A breakdown of new survey data.

The 5th Circuit upholds a lower court ruling but narrows its scope considerably.

The Adobe cofounder who revolutionized printing is gone at 82.

Long after most people returned to normal, public health agencies have given in.

An odd set of Senators have a really bad idea.

You know the drill.

Will anyone listen this time?

A study of 29 countries shows the impact of the pandemic.

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

Three weeks in, only 4.4 million Americans have gotten the shot.

Most Americans are choosing to live a normal life in abnormal times.

The leading public health agency no longer recommends doing things people had already stopped doing.

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

A decades-long decline has ended.

The research is not as robust as you’d think.

The pandemic forced the spread of useful technology.

We’re mostly back to “normal” while yet another new strain is surging.

Some 60% of us, including 75% of our children, have been infected.

Some 230,000 Americans have died needlessly since vaccinations became widely available.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

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

Mixed messages from the pharmaceutical companies.

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

The rollout could have been smoother.

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

Most of us have suddenly gone from High to Low risk communities.

The reports are conflicting but I’d bet on Yes.

A new way to think about the problem.

Even liberal states like California and Massachusetts are moving on.

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

Media reporting on CDC findings is, once again, unhelpful.

The downside to online archives of pre-print articles.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

A day late and a dollar short.

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

The CDC is weighing changing the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

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

Why are we still wearing cloth, which was an emergency measure?

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

That didn’t take long.

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

A scary if misleading factoid.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

Resolving the legal issues will take time we don’t have.

The CDC is leaving it up to you!