Outside the Beltway

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

Who knew?

A great songwriter is gone at 73.

He is actually tweeting about ratings.

This isn’t what leadership looks like.

He was the king of crossover hits long before Garth Brooks.

This could be a very long series.

A proportional response.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

This is no way to run a railroad.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

A law professor makes a bad argument in favor of a pet policy.

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

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

(Or not. Part 1,276,524).

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

Is there a new frontrunner?

The media coverage continues on script.

The State of the Union is petulant.

We do not have results yet.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

What difference at this point does it make?

The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among five fatalities.

The election appeal.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

A legendary newsman has passed.

More fallout from the consolidation of media brands.

Rules for covering the Senate trial highlight changes in how we get the news.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

Willie Simmons is 61 years old. He’s spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9.00 thanks to what clearly appears to be an unjust and overly hard “habitual offender” statute. His story is far too common.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

After an online backlash, The Hallmark Channel has reversed its decision to ban ads featuring a lesbian couple.

The Hallmark Channel caved to the complaints of a small group of so-called Christians who objected to a television commercial.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.