Outside the Beltway

A weird report might explain a puzzling finding in the polls.

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

The UN body cites violation of the Genocide Convention.

Alas, on terms Ukraine can’t possibly accept.

The weirdness of this year’s polling gives the President’s team hope.

“Self Serve”

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

There is a strong push inside the administration to allow use of US weapons to strike Russia.

A beach home and “An Appeal to Heaven”

It’s depressingly short.

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

A collection I started but didn’t fully finish.

He isn’t very popular.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

Public perception is not aligned with the top level data.

After weeks of protest, a solid effort.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

A pending mandate in Louisiana

Here are some special papers.

The Alitos and the upside-down flag.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

It depends.

A truly bizarre spectacle.

A gross miscarriage of justice.

We’re about to test the limits of existing copyright law.

Seven decades after de jure segregation was outlawed, de facto segregation is alive and well.

We need to put this nonsense to rest, stat.

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

The President wants an alternative schedule and format.

He’s ratcheted up what Trump started but also shifted focus.

The release of a second set of figures has created a lot of hyperbole.

Compared to any available alternative, yes.