Outside the Beltway

The proxy war is working.

An odd kerfuffle in local education politics.

An extraordinary example shines light on coercive factors that incentivize plea deals

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

A former Virginia police officer has been found guilty, partly on the testimony of a former colleague.

Intellectuals are fleeing as Soviet-style censorship returns.

The real crime is what’s legal.

A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

Hoisted by their own petard.

Lots of folks at the Gridiron dinner are positive.

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

Evidence of mass atrocities across Ukraine continues to mount.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

The is a 7 hour gap in the phone logs at the White House from January 6, 2021.

Bargaining continues amidst poisoning and mass killing.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Comparing the careers of the sitting Justices with Judge Brown’s

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

The days of unanimous votes are long behind us.

The longtime NFL reporter is gone at 67.

What will Zelensky, Putin, and the West settle for?

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

The most likely outcome is not a happy one.

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

News and commentary of note.

Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.

An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing

Right wing protestors are expected to attempt to create (more) gridlock in the capitol later today.

The Commonwealth’s undemocratic political system is, shockingly, unrepresentative of the will of its people.

The first shoe has dropped.

With choices like these it’s easy to understand why people take plea deals

The 45th President is unlikely to face Federal prosecution but state and civil suits are not going his way.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.