Outside the Beltway

Who is the GOP’s best option to beat Biden and why?

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

The Establishment is desperate for an alternative that’s not coming.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

His lawyers and Democratic lawmakers are urging an exception.

Back when people were kinder and man’s word was his bond.

Don’t offend the Lt. Governor in Texas.

Today’s youth cohort might actually vote.

When something simple isn’t so simple.

Say it ain’t so!

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

They’re angry and yet having a good time.

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

Is America’s military capable of fighting the next war?

The Supreme Court sided with an anti-gay website designer.

We’re in uncharted waters.

Some interesting (and potentially disturbing) polling trends.

Hollywood and the news media are roiled in labor disputes.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

Some predict a fundamental restructuring of the economy.

Most high-income Congressional Districts are Democratic and low-income Districts are Republican.

The real media bias.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

Balancing the public’s desire to know and the potential for harm is not easy.

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

We’re falling further behind for many reasons.

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

The future is here, whether we like it or not.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

Tips for how to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Cheap, big, fast: pick two.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

Here we go again.

The market for competent centrists.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

Why have Americans lost trust in their institutions?

The response to extreme rhetoric from Trump is producing the some old responses.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

The will of the majority can prevail even in a skewed system.

A memory of pop culture and its linkage to broader myths about America.

Parsing the results thus far.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.