Outside the Beltway

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

The jury forewoman is offering hints.

A seemingly benign but controversial gesture.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

A true hodgepodge to start the week.

A post about thinking in a comparative way.

A team of “sensitivity readers” has taken the bad thoughts out of some beloved children’s literature.

The 39th President is not well.

More on the US party system.

Setting the tone.

One of his 2020 primary opponents is tanned, rested, and ready.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

“B&W Sunset”

Because I actually think its important.

A Hollywood star is gone at 82.

Some of these things are not like the other.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

Carville, MTG, and hierarchy in America.

Looking for historical analogs and looking at some numbers.

And this time, we mean it.

It’s probably not strange visitors from outer space but we can’t rule it out.

Another bill doomed to die.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

“Painted Evening”

An aggressive but expected move.

It’s the least I can do—and the most.

What was once impossible, then inevitable, has now happened.

The state of the union is . . . not good.