Outside the Beltway

A case in misplaced priorities.

Breaking a cardinal rule.

Never waste a tragedy.

It’s becoming just another day off work!

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

Did the Trump stunt backfire? Or just an anomaly?

Running for office or just running?

The mommy blogger known as “Dooce” has taken her own life.

Some stories I didn’t get around to blogging over the past week.

You know the drill.

A format unchanged since the Ford Administration* doesn’t suit the modern era.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

Enjoy.

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

One of these laptops is more important than the other.

Go ahead and pop a few.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

The Russian leader may be looking over his shoulder after imposing a draft.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

What happens if Ukraine can’t achieve complete victory?

The Washington Post has fired a reporter for her rants against colleagues.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

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

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

Some tabs plus some tabs equals some tabs.

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

Joe Biden has bet his presidency on a caucus that may simply be irreconcilable.

It’s not funny when you have to constantly explain the jokes.

“The Closer” delivers more of what people love and hate about the GOAT.

As the pandemic’s effects continue to worsen in Florida, DeSantis continues to play the worst kind of politics.

Making sense of a weird story.

The postmortems are well underway.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

Credulous reports notwithstanding, there’s more to the story.