Outside the Beltway

The former Defense Secretary and Vice President is gone at 84.

It’s Liz Cheney’s fault!

Some Democrats are unhappy Harris is touting the endorsement of the Cheneys.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The 2000 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee turned maverick is gone at 82.

The fourth place candidate for second place in the Republican primaries has taken his ball and gone home to Mother.

The best statement on the complexity of the Israel-Hamas conflict that I have heard/read.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

My latest publication.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

The proxy war is working.

It would appear to be the case.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

A weird new narrative has emerged.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

A guy I’ve never heard of is apparently replacing the legendary Alex Trebek.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

The seemingly unremarkable event hadn’t happened in four decades.