Outside the Beltway

We tortured some folks.

Just another day under this administration.

The ongoing attempt to venerate the J6 insurrectionists.

A reminder the US government sent people to CECOT who were then tortured.

The President minced no words.

Trump exploits our mistaken beliefs about crime to consolidate his power.

The reality is, I can’t say no.

Democratic leadership still keeps playing normal politics in times that are anything but.

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

The evil of others rarely brings out our best.

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

As well as the politics that have followed.

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

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

It is unusual and a problem.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

Secretary Noem strikes again.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

America is always both what it claims to be and what it actually is. The Fourth of July, then, marks our aspirations—and also our shortcomings.

A correct but disturbing ruling.