Outside the Beltway

Back when people were kinder and man’s word was his bond.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

They’re angry and yet having a good time.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

A legal defense without merit.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

Our surroundings quite literally change how we see the world.

Get me higher than the grocery bill.

A 5-4 ruling overturns a unanimous decision from 1985.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

A key pathway to success for low-income citizens isn’t working.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Why millenia-old concrete outlasts its modern version.

In case you need some NYD reading.

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

Will discusses a nascent university and in doing so produced a cliched column about higher education.

The January 6 Committee recommends invoking the Insurrection Clause.

The combination of new variants and increased immunity has changed how the disease presents.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

A complicated case out of NYU.

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

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

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

The leading public health agency no longer recommends doing things people had already stopped doing.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring today and will swear his former law clerk in his replacement.

Phoenix, DeVry, and other scam colleges have reached a settlement.

The Washington Post has fired a reporter for her rants against colleagues.

Yet another study that confirms my pre-existing biases.

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.