Outside the Beltway

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming from white collar jobs.

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

When “obviously qualified” apparently isn’t enough

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

The latest bogey man is likely not well understood.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

A trend continues.

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

The state of American debate is not strong.

He’s doubling down on hypocrisy.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

Ann Althouse hits a blogging anniversary.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.

Andrew Sullivan, perhaps the man most responsible for putting the notion of marriage equality into the national debate, has come out of his blogging retirement to weigh in on yesterday’s historic ruling.

Can a country entry reap the benefits of the connected age while successfully tying down the Internet?

Andrew Sullivan has “decided to stop blogging in the near future.”

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

The budget bill Congress set to pass Congress would effectively reverse the will of the voters of Washington, D.C., who just voted to legalize marijuana.

President Obama’s threat to take action on immigration if Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year ignores political reality,

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

The war in Gaza seems to be winding down, but the underlying issues remain.

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

Recent polls notwithstanding, Republicans and Democrats remain largely in lockstep when it comes to U.S. policy toward Israel.

In a new survey, Americans cite politics and the news as the biggest sources of stress in their lives.

More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

As the medium matures, something important is being lost.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

Brian Schweitzer has a reputation for saying things that most politicians wouldn’t, but that may be just what he needs to get attention if he runs in 2016.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

Trying to make some sense out of a week of outrage.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

The last known case of smallpox happened in 1977. Is it time to destroy the virus?

So, this happened.

Could economic chaos bring Egyptians back out into the streets?

In an ideal world, we would be more tolerant of leaders who held controversial positions. We don’t live in that world.

The CEO of Mozilla resigned today amid controversy over his position on same-sex marriage. The triumph of “political correctness,” or just the will of the marketplace?

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

Blogging has changed much over the last decade, and not all for the good.