Outside the Beltway

When the product changes after you bought it.

“Red States” and “Blue State”

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

A team of “sensitivity readers” has taken the bad thoughts out of some beloved children’s literature.

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

The years-long NYC investigation finally bears some fruit.

A welcome development in a long and bloody war.

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

Covering the coverage.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

We used to (usually) know the results on Election Night because the outcomes were clearer.

The stand-up comic is gone at 76.

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

It’s easy if you try.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

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

They’re just too awful for delicate ears.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

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

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

They’re spending millions on issue ads in the wake of Dobbs.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

A great American author is gone at 89.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

The iconic basketball player, coach, and civil rights leader is gone at 88.

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

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?