Outside the Beltway

Is Trump really an outlier?

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

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

More evidence that we are under-counting deaths due to Covid-19.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

The trend line shifted this week.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

All the deaths are fit to print.

A new study finds earlier lockdowns could have saved 54,000 lives by early May.

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

A new study estimates how many lives were saved in 30 American cities.

Another grim milestone

He is claiming his response to Covid-19 is better than the previous administration’s response to H1N1

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

More Americans are out of work than at any time since the Great Depression.

More on Covid-19 and the flu.

Data collection and analysis takes time.

The counting methodology is flawed and that’s assuming honest reporting.

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

Another grim milestone.

People who keep calling Covid-19 “just the flu” haven’t looked very closely at the numbers.

Not to encourage people to skip the longer version, but here’s a key point.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

A startling statistic.

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

On Tucker last night, Patrick made an odd appeal (to be kind).

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

What’s new isn’t necessarily what’s most important.

Less than twelve hours after the mass shooting in Texas, another one occurred overnight in Dayton, Ohio.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

All three children of the next head of the Army are following in his footsteps.

Thirteen people, including eleven civilians, a Sheriff’s Deputy, and the gunman, are dead after a shooting at a bar in California.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

President Trump is apparently a Hurricane Maria Truther.

Despite the evidence, the President thinks he did a great job handling a disaster in which nearly 3,000 American citizens died.

A new study concludes that the total death toll from Hurricane Maria was vastly higher than previously reported.

A new study suggests that the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria was much higher than previously reported.

In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.

Another school shooting, this time in Texas.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

The Leader of the Free World is, sadly, enabling atrocities.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

Even the United Nations has given up trying to maintain an accurate estimate.

Just about a year after President Trump attacked Syria over the use of chemical weapons, the Assad regime has again used chemical weapons. There’s not much we can do about, nor should we.

Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.