Outside the Beltway

More than any of his predecessors, we know in real time.

The legendary cartoonist turned MAGA influencer is gone at 68.

Why I am a bit reticent about being sympathetic.

Being nice at dinner is easy.

A stroll through the archives.

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

Denial, whining, and truth wrapped into one segment.

The first modern stand-up comedian has died at 94.

The dangers of the tyranny of the majority have only magnified.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

Michael Hayden notes that many of Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions are illegal.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and its supporters seem to be getting frustrated by the fact that younger women are seemingly more interested in her opponent than in her.

Cory Booker is in the race for New Jersey’s open Senate seat, but is he really unbeatable?

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

The price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.