Outside the Beltway

The disintegrating military situation is leading to escalating brutality.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Putin’s war of choice has created a humanitarian nightmare.

It would appear to be the case.

As predicted, rejections of ballots is up.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

Some speculation from the BBC.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

One can see the faintest hint of a backbone in the former Vice President.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

The legendary AP politics reporter is gone at 87.

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Most people liked it more than I did.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

It might feel good but it has zero impact on Putin.

The rollout could have been smoother.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

Links and infographics.

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).

Some of our citizens are at greater risk under relaxed mask guidelines.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

News and commentary of note.

Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.

Some of his numbers are worse than even Donald Trump’s.

“Lone Light”

Most of us have suddenly gone from High to Low risk communities.

The front-runner was indeed the pick