Outside the Beltway

Stuck in the semi-public stage.

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

Many Democrats are worried about the fallout.

Shockingly, most people aren’t economists.

A long-overdue reform is meeting resistance.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

As widely expected, Air Force Chief of Staff Charles “CQ” Brown will become the nation’s top military officer.

Legal analysts are skeptical.

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

Sometimes people just change jobs.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

A long-overdue change appears to be happening.

The long demographic trend continues.

President Biden’s pollster has made an amazing discovery.

The loaners, the dreamers, and schemes.

Now, we’re just haggling over price.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

President Trump says that he would not spy on a rival regime like North Korea, once again making one wonder where his loyalties lie.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is being accused of giving preferential access to businesses and businessmen tied to her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

New York has passed a law that would allow Congress to obtain copies of the President’s New York State tax returns.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

The New York Times has obtained about ten years worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the late eighties to early nineties. They don’t tell us much that we didn’t already know.

Jack Goldsmith pushed back on “over the top” reaction to the AG’s handling of the Mueller report.

Bernie Sanders and other advocates focus on insurance companies and drug companies. But that’s not where the money is.

Expert analysis from expert analysts

It’s a lot harder than it looks.

The law is not on the President’s side.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

The evidence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi seems irrefutable.

Contrary to what they believed back in December. Republicans are finding that the tax reform bill is not helping them in the midterm elections.

The American public is not sold on the idea of a ‘Space Force.’

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

The former SecState is engaging in some shadow diplomacy.

Combining universal and mandatory (and free) college-board exams with a program for targeting college recruitment of disadvantaged groups could–if coupled with a commensurate financial commitment by the state to such groups–go some distance in bringing more qualified economically disadvantaged groups into higher education.