Outside the Beltway

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.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

The veteran journalist was ousted after a staff backlash over the use of racial slurs.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

Our cultural divide over the pandemic is turning us into worse people.

In hindsight, there were more than a few clues.

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

The early reaction was premature.

They are standing by as ordered.

The absurdity of this presidency illustrated yet again.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

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

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Lock her up?

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

A weird media narrative has formed.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

Robert Mueller objected to the Attorney General’s characterization of the final report he submitted, reports indicate.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

A classic demonstration of the old maxim, “the medium is the message.”

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.