Outside the Beltway

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

Some disturbing symbolism.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

You be the judge.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

A second stash has led to a special counsel and political embarrassment.

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Electoral Count Act reforms are “hidden” in the bipartisan budget bill.

Why have Americans lost trust in their institutions?

The man is a dangerous nut.

One of these laptops is more important than the other.

Covering the coverage.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

Is the President governing like he means it?

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

The Department of Justice takes an utterly unsurprising, but important step in the Mar-a-lago document case

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in again… [update: x2]

It appears that the DOJ has enough evidence to indict someone.

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

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

Tell us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants without telling us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Some 4500 tip line reports were simply turned over to the White House and not investigated further.

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

Are you going to believe this index or your own lyin’ eyes?

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Why would a group that claims it has evidence of ballot harvesting refuse to turn it over?

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing

Why clearing criminal records makes economic sense

Because of course he did.