Outside the Beltway

When you tax sin, you need more of it.

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

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

Musings about US politics and culture.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

The singer and actor, born Marvin Lee Aday, is gone at 74.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

A really strange case.

Disappointment turns to tragedy.

Refusniks are creating an ethical dilemma for the triage system.

Women are increasingly dominating American higher education.

COVID vaccine hesitancy is just the tip of the iceberg.

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

The seemingly unremarkable event hadn’t happened in four decades.

Our cultural divide over the pandemic is turning us into worse people.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

A rock and roll legend is gone too soon.

The Americana star and son of Steve Earle is gone too soon.

Apparently, we’re not supposed to drink the stuff.

We now have more context but not more relevant facts.

The policy choices before us are not a dichotomy between off and on.

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

Next thing you know, they’ll tell us to eat vegetables.