Outside the Beltway

A rare man and a rare milestone.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

Whither American civil religion?

An aggressive but expected move.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

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

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

A necessary but likely irrelevant gesture.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

Some tabs plus some tabs equals some tabs.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

Another GOP member is added to the investigation.

We’re hurting the feelings of those trying to destroy the country.

A periodic reminder.

The talk radio megastar has died, aged 70.

Yesterday showed that Biden understands the “dignified” part of politics.

President Biden masterfully used the pageantry of the day to shatter the self-asserted Trumpian monopoly on patriotism.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

Some global comparisons.

He raises a very real problem.

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

There’s an inherent tension in our national ethos.

Two new polls show that the President’s recent racist tweetstorms have not gone over well with Americans as a whole, but that’s unlikely to cause the President to walk them back.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

Donald Trump has endorsed a proposal by a Republican Senator to ban flag burning.

A trio of new polls shows Elizabeth Warren slipping past Bernie Sanders into second place in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

All three children of the next head of the Army are following in his footsteps.

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is the latest Democrat to enter an already crowded field.

Findings of “foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct” were dismissed.

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

The House of Representatives has begin the process of challenging the President’s recent declaration of a ‘national emergency’ at the southern border.

Wearing Donald Trump’s famous campaign symbol creates a presumption of ill intent. Is that fair?

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.