Outside the Beltway

The tech giant is even more powerful than you think.

The author of “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment,” and so many more great novels is gone at 84.

A very low-spoilers review.

A country music legend is yet another victim of COVID.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

The actor reflects on nearly three decades with Parkinson’s.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

Trump continues to lag.

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

The state of American debate is not strong.

The status quo ante is not just waiting for us around the corner.

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among five fatalities.

Dennis Prager makes me feel like we are living in the Upside Down.

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.

The longtime anchor is leaving the network, ostensibly at his request.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

Barry Goldwater saw what the so-called “religious right” would become decades ago.

The norms of social discourse are rapidly changing in the #MeToo era.

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

A Federal Judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the DNC alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

This past weekend, Avengers: Endgame passed Avatar as the biggest-grossing movie of all-time, but there are several caveats.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

Anchoring of CBS Evening News is not what it used to be.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

After 67 years, Mad magazine is ceasing publication of new material.

Polls are starting to show that the number of Republicans embarrassed by the President’s rhetoric and behavior is rising. Sorry guys, it’s too late now. You broke it, you bought it.

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

America’s leading motivational speaker and self-help guru is coming under fire.

Legendary Comedian Tim Conway has died at the age of 85.

Que Sera, Sera

The university has bowed to student pressure.

There’s a lot of talk right now about “electability.” but what the heck does it mean?

The original star of ‘Happy Days’ reflects on the shift to second fiddle.

Avengers: Endgame earned $1 billion worldwide in its first weekend, but it will take a lot more to become the biggest grossing movie of all time.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer begins three days of testimony before Congress today. By the time he’s done, he could end up doing real damage to the Trump Presidency.