Outside the Beltway

What’s smaller than minuscule?

Another R/D cleavage?

I know obscenity when I see it and this ain’t it.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

Put the frustration where it belongs.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

COVID vaccine hesitancy is just the tip of the iceberg.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

Lymantria dispar just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Almost everyone in households making over $75,000 are protected from COVID.

A new career and a pending art sale.

This time: the Alaska GOP.

Another example of structural racism.

He has nominated only 304 people out 1,200+ that require Senate confirmation.

Can you guess?

An arrest underscores what the problem isn’t.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

The President announced a whopping 72 initiatives to rein in corporate power and lower prices.

It’s not perfect but it beats our usual approach to picking winners and losers.

Not surprisingly, it has been a bit contentious.

Guidance from WHO, CDC, and local governments differs widely and for good reason.

What we know about those arrested for the 6 January insurrection.

Eric Adams appears to have won a confusing race that isn’t quite over.

UNC’s loss is the nation’s most prestigious HBCU’s gain.

An ugly situation that’s getting uglier.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

He will challenge Greg Abbott for the GOP nomination.

Conservatives have lost it one generation at a time.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Some people claim there’s a woman to blame.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

Short-term politics and long-term harm.

The southern one.

A lot of Americans think so.

New York Times columnists are not a representative sample.

When he said he wouldn’t sign it if it wasn’t accompanied by a second bill, he wasn’t implying that he would veto it if it wasn’t.

A bizarre development looks to upend it less than 24 hours after it was announced.

Public health shouldn’t be made into a partisan issue.

Critical race theory rears its ugly head yet again.

Details are quite scant at the moment.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Yet more evidence that we’re a nation divided.

Discussing the filibuster.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

Or, you know, not.