Outside the Beltway

Team Trump and the DIA assessment of the Iran bombings.

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

The information bubble is real.

The curious case of the finger tattoos.

Terrorism in Colorado. Continued awful violence in Gaza.

Five years after their divorce, the UK and EU are rebuilding ties.

Scary news for the former President.

What it tells us about race and the Trump administration.

Habemus habeas corpus?

Spoiler: it is about the abuse of presidential power.

So little art; not really any deal.

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.