Outside the Beltway

Going out on another unforced error

Abusing power to prevent the abuse of power?

A satisfying but unlikely explanation.

The parties do not control their labels.

Marianne Williamson is getting some competition.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

We’re mostly back to “normal” while yet another new strain is surging.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

The octogenarian epidemiologist is tired of the foolishness.

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

Is media coverage of experts’ struggles to understand COVID helpful?

Denial, whining, and truth wrapped into one segment.

A new story archetype is all too common.

News of the ongoing pandemic.

US health agencies are clashing with the World Health Organization on the question.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The new CDC guidelines raise some serious questions.

The reaction to the pandemic has long since been about much more than the pandemic.

Refuseniks are far more confident than those already vaccinated.

It’s time to up our protection game.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

No, our topic infectious disease expert did not endorse President Trump.

We can’t punish every politician with a mental problem, but some are clearly unfit for office.

A report outlining steps for re-opening the economy in the wake of COVID-19 has been leaked to the press.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

The first person to be quarantined under the new policy announced by New York and New Jersey is raising concerns about the way she was treated, and whether the policy is even the right idea.

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

A travel ban sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions, though, it becomes far less appealing when you think about the details.