Outside the Beltway

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

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

And here we go.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

It’s finally officially official.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

The two races are almost identical.

Kamala Harris will be very, very busy the next two years.

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

The sitting president is asking GA officials to find votes despite the fact that the results have been confirmed thrice.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

The best two teams in college football play for it all amid some controversy.

As expected, the Congress has overridden his veto of the NDAA.

Project366

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

The story played out just as we all thought it would.

Welcome to 2021–may it be better than 2020.

Thus far, Disney+ and HBO Max are additive rather than cannibalizing competing services.

Our cultural divide over the pandemic is turning us into worse people.

The Academy is prioritizing football glory over honor.

That President-elect Biden is shaking up his protective detail isn’t unusual. The reason, however, is.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

Trump brags about being the “most admired” and provides yet another example of poor understanding of data.

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.

It’s easy to mismanage what we don’t have to see.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

Social media makes the line much harder to draw.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.