Outside the Beltway

Affluence comes with a cost.

A natural disaster has compounded a man-made one.

Cheap, big, fast: pick two.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

Constant flight delays and other frustrations require a solution.

The Michigan Senator’s stepping down at a reasonable age shocked everyone.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

As vehicles become more fuel efficient, we’re buying bigger ones.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

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

Because of course she is.

A welcome development in a long and bloody war.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

The re-election campaign is quietly forming but don’t expect an announcement any time soon.

Most don’t even know it passed!

Local issues barely matter in Congressional races anymore.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Putin is committing war crimes in retaliation for an attack on a legitimate military target.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

An impasse over schedule flexibility could have widespread impact.

Is that right? If so, is it reasonable?

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

Are 20 arrests worth a $1.2 million dollar investment?

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

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

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Calling it a “deal” is vastly over-selling it.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Two incumbents roared to victory despite his opposition.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

An example of when better isn’t better.

Some of the other costs that come with exercising a constitutional right

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

World opinion has shifted even more against Russia. Will it matter?