Outside the Beltway

Key posts across the government remain unfilled.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

The media became the story but the President was the news.

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

Major is a good boy who hardly ever bites anybody.

Yes, partisanship is real. And it influences more than just voting behavior.

Israel is taking an aggressive approach to inoculation.

A third of Americans are unsure they want the life-saving COVID shots.

A periodic reminder.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

It is really so hard to understand that you don’t go on vacation during a massive disaster?

Some reflections

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

Yesterday showed that Biden understands the “dignified” part of politics.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

You can’t make this stuff up.

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

Social media makes the line much harder to draw.

Another sign of the dissent of the GOP into madness.

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

At high noon.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

A trend continues.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Either democracy is sacred, or it’s not.

Sigh.

Up is down. Down is up.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

Sorry, UC Irvine, as long as Navarro is on the faculty, no donations from this graduate.

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

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

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Will we ever be satisfied?

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

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

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

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.