Outside the Beltway

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

Behind the CDC’s messaging debacle.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

Despite our poor showing against COVID-19, we have the best infrastructure in place.

Dueling Washington Post op-eds are sowing confusion.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

The World Health Organization has declared the year-long Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a “world health emergency.”

The Ebola outbreak that began last year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still a problem, and still threatening to spread.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

An Ebola outbreak that started last month in Central Africa appears to be contained. You can thank an aggressive vaccination campaign for that.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

Ebola is making a reappearance in Central Africa.. Will the world be better prepared this time?

The National Security Advisor has broken up the team that manages global epidemics for no apparent reason.

Big news in the war against a horrible virus.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

Two more Republican Governors endorse Donald Trump.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.

The Disneyland measles outbreak wasn’t enough to overcome anti-vaccine forces.

Over the weekend, Mike Huckabee took another step that suggests that he is indeed planning on running for President in 2016.

The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

It looks like Congress has averted a budget fight for the second straight year.

The numbers on the Ebola outbreak are bad, but they aren’t as bad as had been feared.

A surprising change at the top of the military’s civilian chain of command.

Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.

The Ukraine crisis, which never really went away, is back,

Mike Huckabee seems to be making the moves necessary to run for President again, For reasons only he can understand.

Despite the conciliatory language after Tuesday, it’s unlikely that much will change in Washington in the next two years.

The Walk This Way Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Americans have wildly distorted understandings of the society around them.

Good news that ought to quiet people’s concerns significantly, on the Ebola front.

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.