Outside the Beltway

A rare man and a rare milestone.

Leaked intelligence intercepts take us inside the Ukrainian war room.

The Pope is siding with evil.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

Sanctions and a costly war are taking their toll.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

A legendary guitarist is gone at 78.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

A member of the inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class and the most recent Country Music Hall of Fame class is gone at 87.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

Apparently, Charles III is quite well off.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

Some light fundraising whilst waiting for mum to die.

Are retired officers on defense boards presumed liars?

Another morale booster for the good guys.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The singer and actor, born Marvin Lee Aday, is gone at 74.

The safety gap between affluent, white and poor, minority communities has grown over the last three decades.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

A long peek at history in the making.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

A massive investment falls just short. This time.

ZZ Top’s longtime bass player is gone.

Part of a disturbing trend.

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

More than 73 percent of Britons will be vaccinated or previously-infected by Monday.

An all-time boxing legend is gone.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

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

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

A solid piece of satire.

Some global comparisons.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

The British PM is very sick from COVID-19.

What do they know, anyway?

A promising new study.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan scored a big win in Parliament, which makes a January 31st Brexit essentially inevitable.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.