Outside the Beltway

Gone, gone, the damage done.

Debates about whether Trump is strong or weak often ignore the fundamental fact that he has power.

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?

The health agency has been gutted under RFK Jr.’s reign.

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

A simple solution to a complex problem.

The prize: sick and dead US children

The relationship appears to be an inverse one.

The sadly predicted has come to pass.

The people who safeguard our nuclear weapons and put out forest fires have been fired.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Efforts to oust him from the race have picked up steam.

New CDC guidelines acknowledge the political realities.

A breakdown of new survey data.

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

The Adobe cofounder who revolutionized printing is gone at 82.

Long after most people returned to normal, public health agencies have given in.

An odd set of Senators have a really bad idea.

You know the drill.

Will anyone listen this time?

A study of 29 countries shows the impact of the pandemic.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Three weeks in, only 4.4 million Americans have gotten the shot.

Most Americans are choosing to live a normal life in abnormal times.

The leading public health agency no longer recommends doing things people had already stopped doing.

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

A decades-long decline has ended.

The research is not as robust as you’d think.

The pandemic forced the spread of useful technology.

We’re mostly back to “normal” while yet another new strain is surging.

Some 60% of us, including 75% of our children, have been infected.

Some 230,000 Americans have died needlessly since vaccinations became widely available.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

Mixed messages from the pharmaceutical companies.

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

The rollout could have been smoother.

Some of our citizens are at greater risk under relaxed mask guidelines.

Most of us have suddenly gone from High to Low risk communities.

The reports are conflicting but I’d bet on Yes.

A new way to think about the problem.

Even liberal states like California and Massachusetts are moving on.

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

Media reporting on CDC findings is, once again, unhelpful.

The downside to online archives of pre-print articles.