Outside the Beltway

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

The Robespierres in the House of Representatives are driving American politics in a predictably horrible direction.

The soccer legend has passed at 82.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

We charge patients way more than other counties.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

The times they are a changing.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

A former dissertation advisor and two Army War College professors are speaking out against the gubernatorial candidate.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

Pop those tabs!

How rules shape the game.

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

The incumbent should win easily but turnout is low and the consequences dire.

The first round is currently being held.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

News and commentary of note.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

The anti-vax-and-other-stuff protest is spreading to Europe.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

Not every argument can be tested on a Pinocchio scale.

The language is going to iel in a handcart.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

A weird new narrative has emerged.

Doing nothing is still a choice, and the legitimacy crisis is here, like it or not.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

If it’s made in France, it’s “sparkling wine.”

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

And so general discussion of vaccine passports and requirements in the US.

More reminders that the pandemic is not over.

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

Mostly about how not to do it.

Increases in social benefits can increase freedom.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.