Outside the Beltway

The relationship appears to be an inverse one.

A great actor is gone at 65.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

But a centrist grand coalition will likely govern.

Unfortunately it is a destructive one.

This would include US citizens.

Way to go, pro-business party!

Trump’s reaction to the air disaster is telling in a variety of ways.

Sorting through the deluge.

Politics, rhetoric, and the question of controlled burns.

A hellscape of fire and destruction.

South Korea demonstrates itself to be a more mature democracy than the United States.

It’s going to be a long four years.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Some context.

Not Gaetz and Hegseth bad, but still, pretty bad.

A GOP member of Congress on deportations.

It sounds the same in the original Russian.

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

On security details and conflicting MAGA views about the danger of rhetoric

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

The basics.

Politics-free edition.

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

A whopping $50 million donation from a single nepo baby put him over the top.

Reactionary politics are not just a US phenomenon.

A non-ruling by the Supreme Court is being touted as something else.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.

Finding 12 impartial people in a high-profile trial is challenging.

While the West dithers, Russia is doubling down.

Some initial thoughts.

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

A tragedy on multiple levels.