Outside the Beltway

Seems about right.

Don’t get your hopes up.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

Why was it released to the public?

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

More than a quarter of Americans know something that isn’t true.

The past just won’t let him be.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

Twenty five alleged plotters have been arrested

The Attorney General can’t please everyone, so he’s got to please himself.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

We live in a bizarre timeline.

The pandemic forced the spread of useful technology.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

Magically mobilizing nonvoters isn’t going to happen (but it sounds nice, I suppose).

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

An incredibly isolated Russian leader is not interested in running the country.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

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.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

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.