Outside the Beltway

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Some thoughts on the Speaker contest.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

It’s becoming just another day off work!

Some interesting (and potentially disturbing) polling trends.

Because I actually think its important.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

Since when is it a crime to say stupid things on “The View”?

The safety gap between affluent, white and poor, minority communities has grown over the last three decades.

Two controversial monuments are gone.

The reactions to a verdict that were predictable (indeed, predicted) are over the top.

A conversation in two parts.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

The reaction to the pandemic has long since been about much more than the pandemic.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

David Brooks is the leader in the clubhouse.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

They are standing by as ordered.

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

The crowd for DC’s fireworks celebration was small but weird.

Nike and FedEx may be able to do what Native American activists couldn’t.

Of course he did.

The Magnolia State is the last in the nation to have the stars and bars on its state banner.

1619, Episode Three

Iowa Republicans have had enough of being represented by a racist buffoon.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Iowa Congressman Steve King finds himself low on campaign cash and with virtually no support from his party.

In this case, Rich Lowry’s.

Congressman Steve King has some rather unique views about human history.

The 76-year-old Democratic frontrunner’s penchant for gaffes is raising questions about his fitness to govern.

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

A Republican State Legislator in Nebraska says things that other Republicans don’t have the courage to say.

Contemporaneous polling says Yes.

Northern Virginia is slowly undoing an anachronism.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

A reading recommendation.

There’s a good reason why Democrats want Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to get out of the way sooner rather than later.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

Congressman Steve King’s anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric hasn’t bothered his constituents for twenty years, but he suddenly finds himself the focus of controversy and possibly vulnerable. It couldn’t happen to a more well-deserving guy.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

There has been a deluge of responses to Laura Ingraham’s recent diatribe about culture and immigration, but I want to look at her rhetoric from a different perspective. The perspective I want to look at is statements by Ingraham about cultures changing over time and the implications in regards to policies about these changes.