Outside the Beltway

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

President Trump has finally allowed the GSA to certify the “apparent” winner.

No need for alarm.

The EIB host and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient is not impressed.

Another unassailable if boring cabinet choice.

He would be the first Latino and first immigrant in the post.

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

At high noon.

He seems to have taken his ball and gone home.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

The virus is real and infections and exposures have consequences.

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

Busy week, missed schedules.

More rhetorical undermining, even as the process moves forward.

Truly the dumbest timeline.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

But, still very bad.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

Trumps words, Michigan GOP Canvassers’ actions.

Why is making the obvious call so hard for the GSA Administrator?

DHS cybersecurity expert who deemed election secure fired by tweet.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Competing priorities.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

Yet another grim milestone.

Because he’s an idiot.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.