Outside the Beltway

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

Russian forces have been forced out of two logistical support hubs.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

Paywalls are not our problem.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

Chris Stirewalt takes a victory lap.

A group of extremists are stopped from instigating a riot.

It was far more compelling than expected.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

The craziest damn thing you’ve ever heard of or a secret message to the crazies?

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

The BBC checks the facts.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

Western intelligence agencies continue to predict an invasion under absurd pretexts.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

Elections have consequences: Old Dominion Edition

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

A conversation in two parts.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

Tab clearing time.

Or, you know, not.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

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

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.