Outside the Beltway

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

it likely won’t do much.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

An odd kerfuffle in local education politics.

Yet another case where good politics yields bad policy.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

Right wing protestors are expected to attempt to create (more) gridlock in the capitol later today.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

A provision of the 14th Amendment to keep Civil War generals out of office is back in play.

Two stories about our culture’s focus on punishment

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

People failing to treat emergencies as emergencies make matters worse.

That didn’t take long.

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

DC’s new area code is causing an identity crisis.

The long demographic trend continues.

Behind the CDC’s messaging debacle.

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

NIMBY is still alive and well in the age of the Internet of Things.

The Free State may have gotten just a little freer.

At least 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca are sitting in American facilities unused.

The quasi-monopoly power of the world’s largest bookstore is problematic. Maybe.

And illustrations of the fact that this isn’t a regular trial.

A legally correct but maddening ruling.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

A completely unsurprising finding.

The President has hit rock bottom.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

A surprisingly slow response from a governor who has been proactive during the crisis.

We’re a long, long way from normal.