Outside the Beltway

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

There has been a steady decline the last five years.

Those who refuse to learn about the past often perpetuate its mistakes.

What about Biden?

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

Will consumers put up with monthly fees on top of hefty sticker prices?

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

The company will debut an all-electric “Explorer” in Europe.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Plus misleading reporting.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

Republicans have died at a far higher rate than Democrats.

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

He met with people. And, get this, with his father!

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

Chris Stirewalt takes a victory lap.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

A pretty good President has numbers comparable to his historically bad predecessor.

Hillary Clinton edition.

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Sound decisions require sound reporting.

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

Another R/D cleavage?

Some people claim there’s a woman to blame.

A lot of Americans think so.

Yet another thing driving Americans apart.

Republicans are more partisan—and distrustful of government—than Democrats.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

A third of Americans are unsure they want the life-saving COVID shots.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

The reflections on the departed right-wing talk host continue.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

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

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

Before we draw broad conclusions of the reporting on the report, don’t we need to see the report?

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

Donald’s Trump’s campaign is the logical conclusion of more than a decade of emotion-drive, substance-free politics.

There’s no excuse for the former NBC anchor’s lies. But there are reasons.

Americans have wildly distorted understandings of the society around them.

A prime example of the failure of the “infotainment” industry that American news media has turned into.

One cannot support the shutdown tactic and then be outraged that part of the government is shutdown.