Outside the Beltway

Yet another grim milestone.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President admits that he intentionally downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

The online behemoth is consolidating its market position during the pandemic.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

A great character actor is gone.

A non-exhaustive tour of Trump’s utterances on the pandemic since January.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

Racial and xenophobic rhetoric and Covid-19.

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves.

The President gave a delusional rant to a half-empty stadium thanks to some crazy kids.

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

The contrast could not be more clear.

Yet another grim milestone.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

He is claiming his response to Covid-19 is better than the previous administration’s response to H1N1

Should public employee pensions be an asset in the administration’s foreign policy?

A sober assessment of President Trump’s plan to get the country running again.

The counting methodology is flawed and that’s assuming honest reporting.

Some informed speculation.

Or just a bump in the road?

Another grim milestone

A grim milestone.

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

Comparing South Korea to the US tells a lot about the failure of leadership in the US.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

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

We are governed by the petty and myopic.

The university is welcoming students back to campus, even as classes are going online.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

Why South Korea is so far ahead of us in fighting COVID-19.

It is hard not to see this as a politically driven move.

…and confusion (and a further market tumble) ensues.

There are two theories, neither of them good.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

This is bigger than President Trump’s incompetence.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

CBS did a lousy job.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?