Outside the Beltway

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Our ostensible ally is seeking to rebrand itself.

The first round is currently being held.

They have lost at least seven.

The term keeps on giving.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

The BBC checks the facts.

Some speculation from the BBC.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

Most people liked it more than I did.

Links and infographics.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

News and commentary of note.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

Some stories of possible interest.

A long peek at history in the making.

Barbados provides an illustration of a frequently misunderstood concept.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

A new story archetype is all too common.

An unsatisfying first(?) response.

Making sense of a weird story.

Some interesting stories or columns that I’ll never get around to writing full posts on.

The pop star is “traumatized” by restrictions placed by her conservator-father.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The numbers are staggering and getting worse.

Queen Elizabeth’s husband has died two months shy of his 100th birthday.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

This St. Louis couple neatly summarizes what’s wrong with America.

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

The British PM is very sick from COVID-19.

The PM and the Health Minister have both tested positve.

A proportional response.

As if the country needed more turmoil.

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

British voters are voting today in the third election in four years. This time, the fate of Brexit is on the ballot.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

There’s no rational explanation for this.

Just so we all know it isn’t just the US suffering a crisis of leadership…

Next week could be a crucial one for Boris Johnson’s future in power.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

It looks as if Boris Johnson’s government could be looking to call for a snap election to he held in the immediate aftermath of Brexit.

Boris Johnson has been in office for barely a week and he’s already facing an existential political crisis.

The fight to determine the leader of the Conservative Party, and the next British Prime Minister, is down to two candidates, but there’s one clear favorite.