Outside the Beltway

A quick follow-up to a previous post.

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

A natural disaster has compounded a man-made one.

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

What will Zelensky, Putin, and the West settle for?

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

Yet another grim milestone.

A scary if misleading factoid.

The number continues to rise.

The difference is politics, not reason.

What we know of the American servicemembers killed.

More reminders that the pandemic is not over.

The official global death toll hits another grim milestone.

More evidence that elite signals matter for mass behavior.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

A way-too-early assessment of how it’s going.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

The death toll is staggering.

Deaths are on the rise.

Meanwhile, a report states that a Trump admin official pushed infections to promote herd immunity.

A grim reminder.

Yet another grim milestone.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

Yet another grim milestone.

Is Trump really an outlier?

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

More evidence that we are under-counting deaths due to Covid-19.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

The trend line shifted this week.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

All the deaths are fit to print.

A new study finds earlier lockdowns could have saved 54,000 lives by early May.

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

A new study estimates how many lives were saved in 30 American cities.

Another grim milestone

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

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

More Americans are out of work than at any time since the Great Depression.

More on Covid-19 and the flu.

Data collection and analysis takes time.

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

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

Another grim milestone.

People who keep calling Covid-19 “just the flu” haven’t looked very closely at the numbers.