Outside the Beltway

“Influencer” Benny Johnson wants to bulldoze certain neighborhoods in DC.

A sign of the Times.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

It’s the least I can do—and the most.

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

A pattern is emerging.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

A former cast member charges that the show about equality wasn’t equal.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

America’s leading motivational speaker and self-help guru is coming under fire.

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.