Outside the Beltway

The esteemed biographer on his process.

Deny them the pleasure of an angry reaction, and they’ll probably leave you alone.

A further attempt at explanation.

The Supreme Court is set to consider whether to take a case involving employment discrimination based on gender identity.

President Trump’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

After roughly a week of staying silent, President Trump decided last night to openly mock Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

We’ll likely never know whether the Supreme Court nominee is a sexual assaulter. But it really doesn’t matter.

I spoke too soon…

The status of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation remains up in the air, as does the question of whether or not Christine Blasey Ford will appear for a hearing on Monday morning.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

Cracks are beginning to show in the previously united Republican front on the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation notwithstanding what appear to be credible allegations of sexual assault.

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, most people are listening to orders to evacuate, but some people aren’t.

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

On North Korea, there are two options, deterrence and war. And only one of those options makes sense.

When a prominent political scientist committed suicide yesterday, I was deeply struck by how much he was like not only me but most of the people in my professional circle.

The first Jobs Report for the first full month of the Trump Presidency is out, but it’s nothing to write home about.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

The cartoonist and student of human psychology is fascinated by the con artist who would be president.

The GOP race for President takes yet another bizarre turn.

Should we treat terrorists as trolls?

People don’t much care whether information supporting their prejudices is true.

There’s no excuse for the former NBC anchor’s lies. But there are reasons.

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

People possess a strong reciprocity instinct and are much more likely to purchase a product if they’ve taken a free sample.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Too regularly engage in “bedtime procrastination,” creating a vicious cycle.

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

In no small part because of a brutal winter, the economy shrank in the first three months of the year.

Ray Rice celebrated his aggravated assault indictment by marrying his victim.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

Scientists have discovered that heterosexual men alter their behavior around women.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

Nick Brown spelled bullshit and managed to debunk an entire academic subfield.

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

There’s no such thing as “sex addiction.”

Ronnie Koenig reveals “What Being Editor in Chief of Playgirl Taught Me About Female Desire.”

NYU’s Geoffrey Miller has done a groundbreaking study connecting obesity, and particularly the consumption of simple carbohydrates, with failure to complete doctoral dissertations.