Outside the Beltway

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Joe Biden has either narrowed down his choice for running mate down to two women or he hasn’t.

A completely unsurprising finding.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Will we ever be satisfied?

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

An open Senate race is now much more likely to stay Republican.

The simplism is strong.

A clip from Trump’s Axios interview shows a man who really does not understand what is going on.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

Trump’s nonsense campaign against vote-by-mail could cost the GOP votes.

Framing matters.

For your consideration.

A great character actor is gone.

The rules are different if you’re famous.

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

The Supreme Court isn’t taking much of a break this year.

Welcome to August.

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

Roll Damn Tide.

The President may be right on voting by mail.

McConnell and McCarthy both reject the notion of a delay.

The one-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination is dead at 74.

Trump’s irresponsibility continues.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

The absurdity of this presidency illustrated yet again.

An ambitious veepable. What a concept!

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

The latest Morning Consult numbers are more bad news for Trump.

Trump made up an invitation to throw out the first pitch.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

Are “trust issues” in the way?

Black football players at Iowa complain they were treated differently—and also the same.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.