Outside the Beltway

Things will get radically worse if the shutdown doesn’t end soon.

ABC and ESPN networks are off YouTubeTV for a second weekend.

Don’t let pundits spin too many fantasies.

Congress, Schmongress.

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

The cruelty is the point?

This ain’t 1976.

Perhaps it’s just as well.

They have a preference but may not vote.

This time: Aurora, CO.

A superstar athlete’s treatment by police raises troubling questions.

Cruelty with compound interest.

A gross miscarriage of justice.

The skies are getting a little friendlier thanks to technology.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

The “interference with the administration of justice” enhancement was wrongly applied.

The country music singer was 62.

Ignorance, it turns out, isn’t bliss.

Might not be bribery, but it’s still exerting influence.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

The game is the game.

Another illustration of the weakness of the American party system.

A political trial for political crimes always yields a political result.

Is a threat in the eye of the receiver or the issuer?

The questionable ethics of living a lavish lifestyle based on high office.

Cities are lowering or doing away with longstanding requirements to provide spaces.

People are leaving our cities for the suburbs. But not on an equal basis.

Some disturbing symbolism.

A hypothetical spoiler for 2024? (Stress on “hypothetical”).

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

Because I actually think its important.

The Greatest of All Time is hanging up his cleats a year too late.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

Galrahn is gone much too soon.

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

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

Paywalls are not our problem.

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

Some thoughts.

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

It seems that some Americans are relocating to be with people who share their social and cultural views.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

The legendary football player and coach is gone at 77.