Outside the Beltway

CNN has a lengthy, deeply reported piece on Trump’s phone calls to other heads of state.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

Contra the CDC, the AAP says getting kids to class outweighs the modest risk of their catching COVID-19.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

This St. Louis couple neatly summarizes what’s wrong with America.

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

Of course he did.

Another bow to the inevitable.

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

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

One of these things is not like the others.

An accomplished racist will no longer be honored by the university.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

Europe has the disease under control while it’s still spreading like wildfire here.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

The “Biden must pick a black woman” plea may be masking a different agenda.

Joementum.

There will be a short outage in the 9pm Eastern hour for scheduled maintenance.

Something significant was going to happen to Tulsa. Who could have predicted a genre shift?

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

A case where the rules probably shouldn’t apply to the President.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

Parents can’t homeschool their kids and hold down jobs indefinitely.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

Racial and xenophobic rhetoric and Covid-19.

President Trump is behind 14 points in the latest NYT poll.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

This time, the Pences

A television interview promoting his book further reveals what an awful man he is.

Another manic Monday.

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves.

The President gave a delusional rant to a half-empty stadium thanks to some crazy kids.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

Drown out your mind