Outside the Beltway

Economic Chart Edition.

A small but positive step.

Billions for a wall plus a likely showdown with the feds.

A television icon is gone at 101.

Prices are way up, even though the CPI is back under control.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Looking ahead to November 5, 2024

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

A quick follow-up to a previous post.

The justices declined to review a bizarre 4th Circuit decision.

Should we reform the way we train a high-tech workforce?

A surprising ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

They join DC and San Francisco.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

The questionable ethics of living a lavish lifestyle based on high office.

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

Cities are lowering or doing away with longstanding requirements to provide spaces.

People are leaving our cities for the suburbs. But not on an equal basis.

A seemingly benign but controversial gesture.

Affluence comes with a cost.

A lot of huge investments have failed for a variety of reasons.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

A new Census definition has changed classifications slightly. It doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Cities across the United States are taking the wrong approach to a crisis.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

That time the Nazis made a movie about the Titanic.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

Localities are consolidating local elections to coincide with national ones. Some don’t like that.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

A showdown over wages could upend the apprenticeship arrangement that has long characterized graduate education.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

The Fed is expected to stall the economy to fight inflation.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

Hurricane Ian renews some perennial questions about recovering from natural disasters.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

What’s being billed as the largest hike in years is anything but.

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

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

The economic downturn is hitting groups in different ways.

An already awful system on steroids.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?