Outside the Beltway

More turmoil in the UNC athletic program threatens Carolina’s academic standing.

Yet another promising spring football league seems to have bitten the dust.

In some expert trolling, the Senate Majority Leader decries “mindless, undiscriminating obstruction for the sake of obstruction.”

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

Luke Perry’s death is a sad reminder.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

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

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

Tennis great Martina Navratilova is facing criticism for raising questions about how sports handles the issue of transgender athletes competing within the gender they identify with. She shouldn’t be.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

“You Know Nothing” Edition.

The best Relief Pitcher in Major League history has been unanimously inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame.

RIP, Dolly.

Washington State has a problem with people stealing “Mile 420” signs, so they’ve come up with a solution.

I’m not saying it was aliens, but……..

While most Hollywood blockbusters have male leads, films starring women actually do better on the aggregate.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Nine years after retiring as Head Coach at Florida, Urban Meyer announced earlier this week that he would retire from his current position at Ohio State after the Rose Bowl.

It’s been thirty-five years since one of the best music videos of all-time was released.

The morning show co-hosts tied the knot at a secret ceremony at the National Archives.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Now it all started fifty-three Thanksgivings ago . . .

Forty years ago tonight, the Star Wars universe came to television in a production so bad that it makes Jar Jar Binks seem positively Shakespearean by comparison.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.

Once the iconic American retail store, Sears now faces the possibility that it may end up fading into history.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

Just when I thought political humor was dead.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

One last Kavanaugh Cold Open.

Saturday Night Live inevitably mocked the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing on Thursday in their cold open.

After forty years, a sexual predator finally gets at least some of what he deserves.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

Lost in all the news about Serena Williams and her arguments with an umpire during last night’s match is the fact that Naomi Osaka represents the face of what appears to be a Japan that is changing for the better.

Recent controversies over rules enforcement have some crying Foul!

The tough guy actor best known for the “Smokey And The Bandit” movies has passed away at the age of 82.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

An occasional series makes a return.

The masturbator-harasser is doing stand-up again.

Iconic Broadway legend Neil Simon, who was responsible for hits such as “The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games over his handling of allegations of domestic violence by an Assistant Coach dating back to 2015.

ESPN won’t air the National Anthem before regular season games this year, but that probably won’t stop the President from ranting about it.

RIP. Queen Of Soul