Outside the Beltway

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

Covid appears here to stay, so the goal is management.

Rudy may not be a very good lawyer…

Foolish lies are for foolish liars.

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

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

As Election Day draws closer, the President is doubling down on stoking racial resentment.

I’ve been thinking it wrong for years.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

On Tucker last night, Patrick made an odd appeal (to be kind).

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

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

The longtime anchor is leaving the network, ostensibly at his request.

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

Well that didn’t take long.

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has hit the bottom of the barrel.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

Trump and Iran.

A new poll shows the former Vice-President leading Senator Elizabeth Warren in her home state.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

Those rambling campaign rally speeches the President loves to give aren’t getting the kind of coverage they used to, not even from his favorite news channel.

Based on what can only be described as pure vindictiveness, the President is apparently planning on revoking security clearances of former officials who have been outspoken against the Administration and its policies.

A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.

With the President’s “Spygate” allegations standing largely discredited, his attorney and at the moment chief spokesperson Rudy Giuliani admits that the entire conspiracy theory was created to discredit the Mueller investigation.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

Responsible governance from the Golden State?

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.