Outside the Beltway

Framing matters.

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

A non-exhaustive tour of Trump’s utterances on the pandemic since January.

If you are wondering why masks are political, look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The longtime Fox News host has re-emerged at an unusual spot.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The crowd for DC’s fireworks celebration was small but weird.

Joementum.

Racial and xenophobic rhetoric and Covid-19.

President Trump is behind 14 points in the latest NYT poll.

The state of American debate is not strong.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Wrongheaded thinking about the pandemic won’t go away.

A sober assessment of President Trump’s plan to get the country running again.

Another allegation of Biden misbehavior that is another category altogether.

The presumptive Democratic nominee says, “They aren’t true. This never happened.”

Who can keep count?

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

It would be laughable, but the White House might be interested.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

We are governed by the petty and myopic.

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

Social distancing is a lot easier when you’re affluent.

It is hard not to see this as a politically driven move.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

She lost in both of her home states. She shouldn’t be embarrassed.

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

Only the best people.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

Sad news from the conservative talk icon.

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

The House decides what is impeachable.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

More fallout from the consolidation of media brands.

Rules for covering the Senate trial highlight changes in how we get the news.

The 45th President polls worse than other prominent Republicans.

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

Mitch McConnell and the other 99 members of the Senate will be required to take an oath to “do impartial justice” in the impending impeachment trial. He’s already admitted that he won’t.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties