Outside the Beltway

Not so much.

More on the conflict of alleged beliefs and who one follows.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

This is the United States today.

Politicizing scientific inquiry is a bad idea.

One of the big ones has given up.

I question the timing.

A stark observation.

The cruelty is indeed the point.

Pornhub has banned itself in nineteen states to the delight of legislators.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

I guess the attention is worth it?

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

The 5th Circuit upholds a lower court ruling but narrows its scope considerably.

The state has banned the teaching of science in science classes.

Don’t offend the Lt. Governor in Texas.

How far should the government be able to go?

The parties do not control their labels.

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

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

Teachers are frustrated over interference from outside.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

That time the Nazis made a movie about the Titanic.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

Elon backs out.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

Intellectuals are fleeing as Soviet-style censorship returns.

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

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

People, details do in fact matter!

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

When “the news” isn’t just “the news.”

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

The President gave a delusional rant to a half-empty stadium thanks to some crazy kids.

He is complaining that the White House is holding it up.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.