Outside the Beltway

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

Joementum.

President Trump is behind 14 points in the latest NYT poll.

The President gave a delusional rant to a half-empty stadium thanks to some crazy kids.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

If the Democrats win back the White House in November, it’ll be no thanks to men.

The state of American debate is not strong.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

The lockdowns are ending and likely not coming back.

The preliminary hearing revealed a damning case against the shooter of a young black man.

Iowa Republicans have had enough of being represented by a racist buffoon.

The system makes it next to impossible to punish bad cops.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

All the deaths are fit to print.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

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

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

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

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

A seemingly innocent black man has been killed, sparking a wave of outrage.

He revolutionized how we think of male homosexuality.

The reports of the the North Korean dictator’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

Data collection and analysis takes time.

These are serious allegations.

A seemingly impossible coincidence.

No. Just no.

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

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

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

Or just a bump in the road?

The bad news keeps on coming.

Trump’s performance during this crisis is a reminder that electing an amateur to the presidency is a really bad idea.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

Gatherings involve risk at the moment.

Who knew?

A great songwriter is gone at 73.

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

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

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.