Outside the Beltway

Racial and xenophobic rhetoric and Covid-19.

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves.

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

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

The contrast could not be more clear.

Yet another grim milestone.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

He is claiming his response to Covid-19 is better than the previous administration’s response to H1N1

Should public employee pensions be an asset in the administration’s foreign policy?

A sober assessment of President Trump’s plan to get the country running again.

The counting methodology is flawed and that’s assuming honest reporting.

Some informed speculation.

Or just a bump in the road?

Another grim milestone

A grim milestone.

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

Comparing South Korea to the US tells a lot about the failure of leadership in the US.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

We are governed by the petty and myopic.

The university is welcoming students back to campus, even as classes are going online.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

Why South Korea is so far ahead of us in fighting COVID-19.

It is hard not to see this as a politically driven move.

…and confusion (and a further market tumble) ensues.

There are two theories, neither of them good.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

This is bigger than President Trump’s incompetence.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

CBS did a lousy job.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

America first.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

For the third time since 2015, Donald Trump gets Politifact’s “Lie Of The Year.”

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.