Outside the Beltway

Politics, rhetoric, and the question of controlled burns.

A hellscape of fire and destruction.

And the grotesqueness of the Trumpian response.

Common ground is, sadly, bad politics.

A brief primer on trauma and a link to an interview and paper on being trauma informed

A natural disaster has compounded a man-made one.

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Hurricane Ian renews some perennial questions about recovering from natural disasters.

It took more than 24 hours but traffic is moving again.

The biggest news doesn’t always get the most attention.

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

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets a lesson in governing the hard way.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

The ground shook overnight in Southern California for the second time in two days.

President Trump is apparently a Hurricane Maria Truther.

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, most people are listening to orders to evacuate, but some people aren’t.

Despite the evidence, the President thinks he did a great job handling a disaster in which nearly 3,000 American citizens died.

A new study concludes that the total death toll from Hurricane Maria was vastly higher than previously reported.

An Ebola outbreak that started last month in Central Africa appears to be contained. You can thank an aggressive vaccination campaign for that.

A new study suggests that the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria was much higher than previously reported.

As we wait for “an all-out snowstorm for the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC-to-Boston corridor,” a storm has already hit back home.

This isn’t your ordinary windy day.

While Puerto Rico suffers, President Trump is spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf resort attacking people on the ground who are actually doing something.

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

Everyone knew the Fukushima disaster was bad. We likely underestimated how bad.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

A bolt out of the blue.

It’s time to start thinking outside the box when it comes to disaster relief.

Hell hath no fury like a Christie scorned.

The bromance between President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now become a love triangle with the addition of Bruce Springsteen.