Outside the Beltway

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

The Irish singer-activist is gone at 56.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

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

Some new data are encouraging.

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

The 45th President was a psychopath.

The Kenosha Police Department is still holding his weapon, clothing, and other property for no apparent reason.

A just verdict—but just a verdict.

The expected has occurred.

Pretrial rulings strengthen his self-defense claims.

A reckless campaign of violence has now targeted American journalists.

Getting an impartial jury in an internationally-famous case is next to impossible.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The politics of protests.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

A thought experiment on what we have seen in Portland.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The crowd for DC’s fireworks celebration was small but weird.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” will reportedly precede the “Star-Spangled Banner” in the opening week.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The lockdowns are ending and likely not coming back.

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

How to translate understandable frustration at injustice into tangible reform?

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.

A Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder has been sentenced to seven years in prison, but could be out in as little as three-and-a-half.

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

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.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

The first night of games in the N.F.L. pre-season included some sporadic protests during the National Anthem, and prompted a predictable response from the President.

In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.

In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

President Trump’s response to the N.F.L.’s new National Anthem policy is as narrow-minded and divisive as you’d expected it to be.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

Yet another object lesson in why active efforts at inclusiveness are vital.

Some thoughts on the biggest Marvel blockbuster yet. [Modest spoilers]