Outside the Beltway

Conflicting guidelines from the CDC are unhelpful.

Despite our poor showing against COVID-19, we have the best infrastructure in place.

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

The media coverage continues on script.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

President Trump is making ridiculous threats against the regime in Iraq that are likely to draw it closer to Iran.

Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a challenge for the leadership of the party he’s headed for more than a decade.

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

After a close election, Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on his effort to form a government.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

Another police shooting of an innocent African-American. This time in Fort Worth, Texas.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

A big haul for the GOP.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

Parliament is suspended for the next five weeks but it ended with Prime Minister Boris Johnson being handed historic defeats for an incoming Prime Minister.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

A wedding venue in Mississippi is citing religious beliefs in support of its decision not to allow an interracial couple to utilize their facilities.

The junior Senator from Massachusetts could be facing a big challenge in 2020.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

Thanks to a ruling by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, the island Commonwealth has its third Governor in less than a week.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.

The evidence is clear that Russia interfered in the election in 2016 and intends to do so again. Despite this, Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation designed to enhance election security.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has a Republican challenger, but she doesn’t really need to worry about it.

Detroit shows how modern technology can lead to a virtual police state.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

We all know the Internet broke the monopoly on classified advertising. Here’s the rest of the story.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash doubled down on his assertion that the Attorney General was deliberately misleading Congress and the American public.

Late last week it appeared as if a 90-year-old veteran of the Korean War would be buried without anyone to say goodbye. Then the word got out, and thousands of people responded.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.