Outside the Beltway

A massive sting operation has been revealed.

Federal police officers continue to be immune from lawsuits.

A recent poll provides interesting insights.

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

A reckless campaign of violence has now targeted American journalists.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

Rogue cops, racial profiling, tainted cases, and the lack of consequences.

The Free State may have gotten just a little freer.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

A criminal trial is a poor venue for solving society’s problems.

The U.S. Senators and a U.S. Representative beg to differ.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

The GOP will almost certainly survive. But in what form?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

In hindsight, there were more than a few clues.

The detective who shot her and another who prepared the warrant have been ousted nine months later.

Social media makes the line much harder to draw.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

Anonymous bullshit from the New York Post.

We’re winding down to Election Day. Where do we stand?

Some recommended reading.

This really is the heart of the issue.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

Framing matters.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

A thought experiment on what we have seen in Portland.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

Federal agents deployed nonlethal force against peaceful demonstrators.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?

The weirdness of Internet outrage culture.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

Decades of reform efforts have failed. Is it time for a radical solution?