Outside the Beltway

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

Roll Damn Tide.

The President may be right on voting by mail.

McConnell and McCarthy both reject the notion of a delay.

The one-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination is dead at 74.

Trump’s irresponsibility continues.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

The absurdity of this presidency illustrated yet again.

An ambitious veepable. What a concept!

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

The latest Morning Consult numbers are more bad news for Trump.

Trump made up an invitation to throw out the first pitch.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

Are “trust issues” in the way?

Black football players at Iowa complain they were treated differently—and also the same.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

Shame on him for defending authoritarian actions.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

A bizarre but possibly correct ruling by the Supreme Court.

Partial credit at best, however.

A new company has reinvented the communication tool that people love to hate.

An unintended consequence of the Cares Act.

Apparently, we’re not supposed to drink the stuff.

A thought experiment on what we have seen in Portland.

We can’t punish every politician with a mental problem, but some are clearly unfit for office.

Deaths are on the rise.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

A lousy column indirectly makes an important point.

“In Process”

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Federal agents deployed nonlethal force against peaceful demonstrators.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

Pentagon officials are speaking out about the militarization of police.

Trump and virus politics.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?