Outside the Beltway

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

Antiquated counting methods lead to misallocation of resources.

Surprisingly, yes.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

Another example for the conversation.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

An unfunded mandate remains in place.

Great news—with a rather huge caveat.

A George Mason economist has an intriguing idea but maybe he has it backwards.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

Barr finds no fraud.

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Robert Mugabe led a nation to independence only to become a dictator who destroyed its economy, has died at the age of 95.

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Democrats have flipped the Senate seat currently held by Republican Jeff Flake.

A slight variant of the uniform from World War II and Korea is coming to a soldier near you.

The Trump Administration is preparing a policy change that will essentially define transgender Americans out of existence.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

A towering figure gone much too soon.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Not an Easter song, exactly, but certainly evocative of some of the holiday’s major themes.

I hope Ben Carson has a comfortable couch at home.

This isn’t your ordinary windy day.

Ben Carson has expensive taste in office furniture.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

The new Black Panther movie raises a variant of the central question of the superhero genre. [No significant spoilers]

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in an important case dealing with the circumstances under which voters can be purged from the voting rolls.

A not guilty verdict in a case that Donald Trump turned into a political issue.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

Should Donald Trump be classified as a fascist?

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

The final episode airs tonight. How will Matt Weiner will wrap it up?

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

We may have our first legal challenge to an Ebola quarantine order by tomorrow

America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.

It appears that there will be no Federal charges against George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin. This is not a surprise.

The Supreme Court has issued a stay that will allow changes to Ohio’s early voting law to remain in effect for this year’s election. That was the correct decision.

Electronic payments are convenient but sometimes there’s nothing better than money in your pocket.

Being a public intellectual doesn’t pay.