Outside the Beltway

A massive expansion of the Pell Grant program for prisoners goes into effect next month.

We’re seeing our lowest test scores in decades among a key cohort.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

Stories of interest/that I am not going to get around to writing more about. (And yes, these are really all open tabs that I want to close).

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

Dueling headlines give radically different impressions of the same case.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

It is something we need to think about.

Running for office or just running?

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

The inevitable next shoe has dropped.

The questionable ethics of living a lavish lifestyle based on high office.

Cities are lowering or doing away with longstanding requirements to provide spaces.

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

Who should pay whom for what?

The company will debut an all-electric “Explorer” in Europe.

DC has radically expanded its electorate.

The Biden administration had little choice but to act.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Here we go again.

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

The Baretta actor and acquitted murderer is dead at 89.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

“Red States” and “Blue State”

The lunatic fringe idea is both appealing and unworkable.

Some Democrats are angry!

Politics and justice are in tension.

Another poll showing the same thing as the other polls.

A growing trend has healthcare professionals and communities concerned.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

A seemingly benign but controversial gesture.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

Because I had a lot of open tabs.

Leftovers from last week and over the weekend.

Some depressing stats.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

The race is on before the 89-year-old has announced her intentions.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Castrating their party’s Speaker is not smart politics.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.