Outside the Beltway

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!

Good news with mixed messaging.

A paradox that’s not hard to explain.

More are getting their third shot than their first.

Policy matters.

The President has lost his patience with the unvaccinated.

Stories from the ongoing pandemic.

The President is looking for any leverage he can to get refuseniks vaccinated.

US health agencies are clashing with the World Health Organization on the question.

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

Compared to what?

His executive order blocks schools from having masking rules.

The President hit all the right notes.

Behind the CDC’s messaging debacle.

It’s time for our political leaders to grow a spine.

The country’s largest employer is soon going to be less tolerant of the unvaccinated.

A study in contrasts.

Guidance from WHO, CDC, and local governments differs widely and for good reason.

The rate at which Americans are getting COVID shots is slowing rapidly.

The politics of face coverings continues to shift.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

A lot of Americans think so.

Public health shouldn’t be made into a partisan issue.

Vaccination is voluntary but refusal is not without consequence.

An unfunded mandate remains in place.

The politics of science comes full circle.

The new CDC guidelines raise some serious questions.

Speaker Pelosi and House Republicans are waging separate battles with science.

Great news—with a rather huge caveat.

New polling provides useful insights into the problem.

Should live-saving drugs be protected intellectual property?

The reaction to the pandemic has long since been about much more than the pandemic.

We’re at the lowest rate in generations.

The least vulnerable Americans will soon be vaccinated.

The CDC is green-lighting much, much more activity for the fully-vaccinated (with some caveats).