Outside the Beltway

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

It is unusual and a problem.

The former White House physican (and current Congressman)’s demotion for misconduct has been reversed.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

Stephen Miller and Fox News.

Secretary Noem strikes again.

This week Steven and Tom discuss and debate fan service.

The slur “Trump Derangement Syndrome” unintentionally captures something real about our world.

Kindness goes a long way.

A very different way to run a railroad.

Former VPs get only six months of protection?!

“Krog Street Tunnel”

Town hall meetings are a relic of a different age.

Wildly unpopular policies in hyperpolarized times.

Following the Dear Leader.

Since I was thinking about 2016

Allegations that DOGE put Social Security info on an unsecured server.

If any other president…

The politics of words.

Whoever you are, please stop trying to register clearly fake accounts.

The party that once invoked states’ rights once again turns to the heavy hand of federal power to stamp out any deviation from its own orthodoxy.

The gradual population shift from blue states to red continues.

This week, series one of the British cult classic, Blake’s 7!

A list of words and who actually uses them!

Are Democrats triggering voters by pushing the Overton Window on language, thereby subverting norms and creating barriers to participation?

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

Local control over a global enterprise makes no sense.

What was “extreme” a decade ago is now policy.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).