Outside the Beltway

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

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

Constant flight delays and other frustrations require a solution.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

A new Census definition has changed classifications slightly. It doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

Most don’t even know it passed!

The corrupt leader is back for a sixth term.

The 42-year-old billionaire makes history in many ways.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

An impasse over schedule flexibility could have widespread impact.

The bloody conflict could go on for months, if not years.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

A few quick observations at the end of the week.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The American way of war kills a lot of noncombatants.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

While 96 percent of airmen are in compliance, the service is about to get smaller.

Really, they owed (and still owe) us better behavior.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

Part of a disturbing trend.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

It’s harder than a looks, especially given the limited size of the problem.

The quasi-monopoly power of the world’s largest bookstore is problematic. Maybe.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

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

Sigh.

This is no ordinary recession.

There are two theories, neither of them good.