Outside the Beltway

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

“Now this campaign is over, what is the will of the people? What is our mandate?”

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

Sigh.

Not the flu.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

It turns out, he wasn’t hacked. (Spoiler: They’re never hacked.)

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

They are standing by as ordered.

Sigh.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

A pleasant surprise.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

Institutional reform is necessary, but we can’t accomplish much in the face of tribalism.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Conspiracy theories are poisoning the United States. That’s no joke.

The weirdness of Internet outrage culture.

The President of the United States is displeased.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

Free speech is not for everyone.

The Country Music Hall of Famer is gone.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

Of course he did.

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

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

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

A brand dating back to 1889 is being retired.

The state of American debate is not strong.

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

The contrast could not be more clear.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

The President is sending a terrible message.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

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