Outside the Beltway

The state of American debate is not strong.

Because sometimes a comment starts to become a post.

JK Rowling is uinder fire for arguing only women menstruate.

Clips of recent police behavior reminded me far too much of scenes from authoritarian Latin America.

A solid piece of satire.

The President is sending a terrible message.

Hypocrisy, lies, and dangerous rhetoric from Trump and his allies on mail-in voting.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

The President’s unhinged Twitter rants have drawn a rebuke from an unlikely source.

Can there be truth when there are consequences?

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Trump fires another Inspector General.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

Pandemonium during a pandemic.

He is claiming his response to Covid-19 is better than the previous administration’s response to H1N1

The founder of Small Wars Journal passed Saturday.

The coaching legend led the 1972 Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in NFL history.

Data collection and analysis takes time.

This isn’t how it is supposed to work.

The policy choices before us are not a dichotomy between off and on.

Harsh. But fair?

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

People who keep calling Covid-19 “just the flu” haven’t looked very closely at the numbers.

A much-needed call for unity.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

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

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

The British PM is very sick from COVID-19.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

A public health crisis turns into a public relations crisis.

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

He is actually tweeting about ratings.

Comparing South Korea to the US tells a lot about the failure of leadership in the US.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

This isn’t what leadership looks like.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

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

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

The man is a moron.

American’s online sales leader is straining under the social distancing regime.

Some on Twitter (yes, I know) seem concerned, but is this even a good question?

The Daily: “Alone Together”

An ongoing missed opportunity to lead by example.