Outside the Beltway

Some context.

Also, this Just In: WWII Was 80 Years Ago

The iconic labor leader had a dark secret.

This administration isn’t debating history. It’s distorting it for its own narrow purposes methodically. And predictably.

On nations, borders, and laws.

The move to build Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom is moving at record speed.

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

Memories are fading, as they are wont to do.

If President Trump sends unwanted military force into American cities, the one thing we should not act is surprised.

And other tales of subverting knowledge and expertise on the altar of a preferred mythic narrative.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

America is always both what it claims to be and what it actually is. The Fourth of July, then, marks our aspirations—and also our shortcomings.

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

This could be a issue for common ground… if both sides are prepared to give a little

Autocracy in America.

Who did Nazi this coming?

A Republican columnist is angry that Trump, not Harris, is being seen as the incumbent.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

History rhymes in uncanny ways

And you might ask yourself: “how did we get here?”

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

A scholarly treatise argues it is not.

Some historical context.

Generations of young Americans weren’t alive or have no real memory of the event.

A tale from the DeSantis’ Woke Wars.