Outside the Beltway

Separate investigations are merging, with a criminal component being added.

We’re at the lowest rate in generations.

Rudy may not be a very good lawyer…

Would a woman with his credentials be taken seriously?

An odd complaint from parents who voluntarily send their kids to religious schools.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

The U.S. Senators and a U.S. Representative beg to differ.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

It’s easy to mismanage what we don’t have to see.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

More evidence that we are under-counting deaths due to Covid-19.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The emotional and economic impact of the pandemic is hitting women especially hard.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

All the deaths are fit to print.

A new study finds earlier lockdowns could have saved 54,000 lives by early May.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

A new study estimates how many lives were saved in 30 American cities.

“Will some people be affected badly? Yes.”

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

These figures indicate that we are experiencing a serious global health crisis that is, empirically, a deviation from the norm.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

A startling statistic.

The disease has killed three times the September 11 attacks in the last week.

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Gina Raimondo has apparently lost her copy of the Constituiton.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

A sign of the times.

Too many people still don’t understand the idea behind ‘flattening the curve.’ That includes our President.

The wagons have been circled.

CBS did a lousy job.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

We now have five candidates in double-digits.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign was forced to apologize for something that really isn’t a scandal.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.