Outside the Beltway

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

The President has hit rock bottom.

A great character actor is gone.

The one-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination is dead at 74.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

Federal agents deployed nonlethal force against peaceful demonstrators.

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

The President does not like his poll numbers.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

Ongoing ambiguity is not helpful.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

A result of the Trump rally?

Another avoidable milestone.

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

The president of the country with the second most cases and fatalities has tested positive.

Harvard joins a growing list of universities who will not offer in-person classes this year.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

Some incredibly thin reporting about a story that is almost certainly made up.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

CNN has a lengthy, deeply reported piece on Trump’s phone calls to other heads of state.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

Of course he did.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

A case where the rules probably shouldn’t apply to the President.

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

If the Democrats win back the White House in November, it’ll be no thanks to men.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

The preliminary hearing revealed a damning case against the shooter of a young black man.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

The wheels of justice ran more swiftly than usual.

Hypocrisy, lies, and dangerous rhetoric from Trump and his allies on mail-in voting.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

Biden’s polling lead over Trump is historically stable.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

And some notes on Trump’s media exposure.

North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, may be seriously ill.

Or just a bump in the road?

He has ended his bid for the Democratic nomination.

The British PM is very sick from COVID-19.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

This isn’t what leadership looks like.