Outside the Beltway

Some depressing stats.

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

Here we go again.

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A lot of huge investments have failed for a variety of reasons.

The market for competent centrists.

A silly workaround to an infuriating problem that won’t go away.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

Where do we draw the line?

The silliness of “generations.”

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

And if you’ll buy that, I’ll throw the Golden Gate in free.

The Biden administration has a point.

Swedish right-wing provocation and Turkish short-sightedness.

Some stories worth noting but not at great length.

“Water Colors”

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

The Supreme Court’s internal investigation was inconclusive.

The folk rock legend is gone at 81.

At what point does negligence become a crime?

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

The infuriating fight to authorize spending already-allocated money is back.

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

The Marine and Air Force chiefs appear to be the top candidates.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

Some tab clearing.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

One of these is not like the other.

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.