Outside the Beltway

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

In a 2015 speech, he told law students that it’s vital for judges “To keep our emotions in check. To be calm amidst the storm.”

Normally attorneys would be jumping at the chance to represent the President of the United States. With Donald Trump, the lawyers are distancing themselves from him as fast as they can.

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

Conservatives are doing what the criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.

David Corn tweets, “Can I write the Hurricane-Earl-Is-Obama’s-Hurricane-Katrina piece? Or do I have to wait for Earl to make landfall? What’s protocol?”