Outside the Beltway

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

A scary if misleading factoid.

Politicians gonna politician, but still…

The erstwhile QAnon Shaman will spend another three-and-a-half years in jail.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

An amusing incident highlights how far we’ve fallen.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The latest front on the war on truth.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

You know you got it when you’re going insane.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

A third of Americans are unsure they want the life-saving COVID shots.

Debunking urban legends and Internet rumors is harder than it used to be.

The disgraced loser remains as popular as ever with his base.

Most Americans have never even heard of it.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Not.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

Outliers are bad places to look for solid support of your argument.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Although, as usual, he maintains his odious approach to it all.

The Georgia governor and his family are under attack because he did his job.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

The EIB host and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient is not impressed.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

The President’s claims have no merit.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

American fascism is on parade, right now.

Why roll with the facts when you can confuse your supporters with conspiracy theories?

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

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

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

Conspiracy theories are poisoning the United States. That’s no joke.

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

The President’s unhinged Twitter rants have drawn a rebuke from an unlikely source.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

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

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

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

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.