Outside the Beltway

He beats the alternative.

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.

A series of mismatches mean would-be workers can’t find employment despite an abundance of openings.

The President is looking for any leverage he can to get refuseniks vaccinated.

A legendary journalist is gone.

A humanitarian crisis made worse by shameful delays.

The long demographic trend continues.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

The politics of face coverings continues to shift.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

A lot of Americans think so.

Details are quite scant at the moment.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

A lottery brings out the worst in a small town.

One party is divided on how to govern and the other is united in not governing.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

Looking to Federalist 22.

The politics of science comes full circle.

The new CDC guidelines raise some serious questions.

Here we go again.

The Southeast has been hit especially hard.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

The least controversial subject in school is suddenly controversial.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

Rogue cops, racial profiling, tainted cases, and the lack of consequences.

The semantic debate is obscuring the actual public policy issue.

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

My home state has become the first in the South to join the trend.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

A criminal trial is a poor venue for solving society’s problems.

There’s no voting in baseball.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

A shocking number of states no longer require them and the Leader of the Free World lacks the authority to change that.

Competing analogies and externalities.

Many states are moving to a first come, first served basis for COVID shots.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

Balancing practical considerations and religious observances.

The evidence is too clear to ignore at this point.