Outside the Beltway

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.

Deterring Russia is a matter of principle.

There’s no keeping politics out of these Games.

Is a contribution after an election different from one during an election?

Let the browser be cleared!

It doesn’t add up.

Apparently, getting her elected President is not a high enough priority in the Biden White House.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Tip O’Neil’s famous saying hasn’t been true in a long, long time.

The actor known for his roles on “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire” is gone at 54.

Not everyone is losing money.

The postmortems are well underway.

The collapse is coming even faster than feared.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

A massive sting operation has been revealed.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

Mostly about how not to do it.

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

The Free State may have gotten just a little freer.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

Although, as usual, he maintains his odious approach to it all.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

Same endless song, different verse.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

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

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

A pleasant surprise.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

Institutional reform is necessary, but we can’t accomplish much in the face of tribalism.

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

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.