Outside the Beltway

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.

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

The man most famous for his turn on “Leave it to Beaver” has passed from liver cancer aged 77.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Paywalls are not our problem.

The US armed forces are looking for a few more good men and women.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

The Supreme Court has reversed decades of precedent on church-state separation.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

The Proud Boys, Trump family, and Alex Jones all filmed documentaries of their actions leading up to January 6.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

An ugly divorce exposes a gap in our legal structure.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

PETA has launched a weird protest against Starbucks.

The legendary comic book artist is gone at 80.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

A former Virginia police officer has been found guilty, partly on the testimony of a former colleague.

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

Does it matter whether she’s a rube or a mastermind?

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

Right wing protestors are expected to attempt to create (more) gridlock in the capitol later today.

The Democratic strategist and longtime talking head is gone at 73.

It seems that some Americans are relocating to be with people who share their social and cultural views.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

Musings about US politics and culture.