Outside the Beltway

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

They took notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.

“Urban Gallery”

Not every argument can be tested on a Pinocchio scale.

There are no good options, only bad and worse ones.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

Do young Democrats really hate Republicans more than vice-versa?

Two controversial monuments are gone.

We’re three short years from the next election.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

An epic but improbable win.

Children are starving and it’s partly our fault.

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

“The Old Roundhouse”

Barbados provides an illustration of a frequently misunderstood concept.

What happens if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade?

Oral arguments on the biggest abortion case in decades will be heard today.

Gotta clear them all.

There will be two chickens in every pot this holiday season. Maybe three.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

The language is going to iel in a handcart.

Our system and the shaping of the GOP’s future.

Yet again, Mike Lindell show what a fraud he is.

Kimberly Webb Joyner, my first wife and the mother of my children, has been gone a decade.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

“A Walk in Portland”

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

Representatives Choosing Their Voters Rather than Vice Versa, Chapter 412.