Outside the Beltway

Public misconceptions about federal waste invite tolerance for questionable workarounds to the constitutionally prescribed manner of determining appropriations.

The targeting of international students.

The illogical of MAGA.

Parade of poor governance edition.

The people who safeguard our nuclear weapons and put out forest fires have been fired.

The details matter.

Only a handful of Republican Senators have objected. Mildly.

Amending the Constitution with one simple trick.

Not a lot of true competition on my ballot in Alabama.

Looking at the US South.

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

RCV is now banned in the state.

And the grotesqueness of the Trumpian response.

There is, unfortunately, a bit of a theme.

A modest proposal for Civil Service reform.

An FNC report on the Alaska House race is a mess.

Why the rent is too damn high.

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

Cruel punishment is not unusual.

The Gaza conflict has ousted a member of “the Squad.”

Reggie Jackson and playing baseball in the Deep South.

Does Nicholas Kristof make his case?

The inclusion of Negro League statistics has rewritten the game’s history.

A pending mandate in Louisiana

A potential GOP self-own in south Texas.

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

A long tradition continues unabated.

Well, that was something.

They’re fast running out of time to find a candidate.

There is no denying that he was consequential.

A narrow ruling in a civil case could have huge consequences.

Gregg Abbott is now defying the U.S. Supreme Court, forcing a showdown.

One man’s retirement has upended the college football landscape.

The greatest coach in college football history is hanging it up.

An illustration of the justice system working as designed.

Why can’t some of us handle the truth?

Economic Chart Edition.

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

400-plus general and flag officer promotions went through almost instantaneously.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.