Outside the Beltway

Cults of personality are not the same as cults.

A satisfying but unlikely explanation.

The abaya is now banned as well.

Russian war crimes have made a diplomatic settlement next to impossible.

Our surroundings quite literally change how we see the world.

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

A bill in Alabama would bar Chinese nationals from buying property in the state.

The Pope is siding with evil.

We’re getting weird policies almost nobody is asking for.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

The Pope is indeed Catholic. The rest is up for debate.

A piece in The Atlantic inspires thoughts.

What we know about those arrested for the 6 January insurrection.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

Mike Lindell’s behavior is both farcical and dangerous.

Not of governance.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

Gatherings involve risk at the moment.

Why the ‘moral majority’ is willing to tolerate so much immorality from their leader.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

Christian doctrine actually has a lot to say that is of relevance to the border.

The Supreme Court ruled that a World War One memorial that had been on public grounds for 70 years can stay where it is.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.