Outside the Beltway

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

Enjoy.

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

One of these laptops is more important than the other.

Go ahead and pop a few.

The Russian leader may be looking over his shoulder after imposing a draft.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

What happens if Ukraine can’t achieve complete victory?

The Washington Post has fired a reporter for her rants against colleagues.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

Some tabs plus some tabs equals some tabs.

Joe Biden has bet his presidency on a caucus that may simply be irreconcilable.

It’s not funny when you have to constantly explain the jokes.

“The Closer” delivers more of what people love and hate about the GOAT.

As the pandemic’s effects continue to worsen in Florida, DeSantis continues to play the worst kind of politics.

Making sense of a weird story.

The postmortems are well underway.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

Credulous reports notwithstanding, there’s more to the story.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

The veteran journalist was ousted after a staff backlash over the use of racial slurs.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

Our cultural divide over the pandemic is turning us into worse people.

The early reaction was premature.

They are standing by as ordered.

The absurdity of this presidency illustrated yet again.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Lock her up?

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

A weird media narrative has formed.