Outside the Beltway

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

Why South Korea is so far ahead of us in fighting COVID-19.

Why the ‘moral majority’ is willing to tolerate so much immorality from their leader.

If a global pandemic and economic crisis weren’t enough excitement . . . .

He’s a long way from 1991 delegates but no one can beat him.

There are two theories, neither of them good.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

These decisions should be made by professionals.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

The wagons have been circled.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

Joe Biden won with every group imaginable—and some that were unimaginable.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

Because America.

CBS did a lousy job.

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Only the best people.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

We’re going to make history one way or another in November.

In 2016, they were backing an extreme long-shot. Now, he’s the frontrunner.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The clear winner was Donald Trump.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

He is complaining that the White House is holding it up.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

The Attorney General claims to be frustrated by Presidential tweets that undermine his department.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

The math compelled it. But he outlasted several better-known candidates.

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

Is there a new frontrunner?