Outside the Beltway

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

Finding 12 impartial people in a high-profile trial is challenging.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

Millions of fools and their money may soon be parted.

A long-predicted threat has emerged.

A narrow ruling in a civil case could have huge consequences.

If we’re even bowling at all.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

The Piano Man is back with a new song.

It’s just resting.

A television icon is gone at 101.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

We can all agree that Trump and Biden are over the line. But where is it?

It’s . . . complicated.

Can generosity be wrong?

A joke(?) gone a-rye.

The Justice Department claims the search giant abused its power.

How something so promising became so frustrating.

They’re angry and yet having a good time.

How far should the government be able to go?

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

Is a threat in the eye of the receiver or the issuer?

A weird twist to the online leak story.

An outrageous political stunt.

Who should pay whom for what?

The Biden administration had little choice but to act.

The last original member of Lynryd Skynyrd has died.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

A long-form podcast recommendation.

At what point does negligence become a crime?

One of these is not like the other.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

The Arizona Senator runs an online thrift store in her spare time.

Galrahn is gone much too soon.

A watershed moment in the prosecutions of the Capitol Rioters.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

A country music icon is gone at 90.

Candidate quality can matter.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.