Outside the Beltway

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.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

President Trump tried to get into the Christmas spirit last night. He failed.

The Trump Administration appears to think that the Budget Deficit and National Debt aren’t a big deal because we can just grow our way out of the problem. This is highly unlikely to happen.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he’s not running for President in 2020.

Is Donald Trump thinking about dumping Mike Pence in 2020? Probably not, but that’s not going to stop the speculation.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?