Outside the Beltway

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

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

A few people are committing the lion’s share of petty thefts in America’s biggest city.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The inevitable next shoe has dropped.

A wildly ambitious goal.

An old soldier has faded away.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

Legal analysts are skeptical.

It has begun.

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

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

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

And so it begins?

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Balancing the public’s desire to know and the potential for harm is not easy.

The Netanyahu government is facing massive strikes and protests over its latest authoritarian moves.

Who should pay whom for what?

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

The huckster is exploiting bankruptcy laws and the financial regulations to circumvent court judgments.

The Manhattan DA could move as early as next week.

The Biden administration had little choice but to act.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Here we go again.

The Baretta actor and acquitted murderer is dead at 89.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

The popular former Republican governor of Maryland has correctly assessed his chances.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

A post about thinking in a comparative way.

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

A Hollywood star is gone at 82.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

The state of the union is . . . not good.

A long-form podcast recommendation.

The Greatest of All Time is hanging up his cleats a year too late.

Because I had a lot of open tabs.

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

The folk rock legend is gone at 81.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

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