Outside the Beltway

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

The innumeracy hurts.

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

Trump is making verbal gaffes while making fun of Biden’s verbal gaffes.

Where religious zealotry can lead. (So, yes, a digression into American politics).

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.

In a bathtub?

We need to do better.

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

One of the worst movies in memory may be getting a sequel.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

What’s behind the sure-to-fail bid to oust his own party’s Speaker?

The chickens are slowly coming home to roost.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

A tale of slow-moving bureaucracy.

A Republican lawmaker pleads guilty.

So a court has ordered.

A slight recalibration (although perhaps not the one that was wanted).

Common ground is, sadly, bad politics.

The Gulf and Western singer, songwriter, and mogul has died at 76.

The base is remaining loyal to the only candidate they think can beat Biden.

The Senate Republican Leader had another concerning incident.

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.

A surpringly large number tuned in to see people who won’t be the nominee.

The airlines hate hidden city ticketing and are cracking down.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

A counterintuitive move.

The oldest state institutions of higher education are spending money to make money.

Sanity has prevailed.

Permanent felon disenfranchisement is unconstitutional.

The rapidly changing face of college sports.

If you thought the first term was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

The state has banned the teaching of science in science classes.

A tale from the DeSantis’ Woke Wars.

It’s not nearly as far-fetched as most of us would like to believe.

He is not a master criminal.

The former President has a 50 point lead. Is he unstoppable?

Doubling down on state standards on slavery.

Those who refuse to learn about the past often perpetuate its mistakes.

On Florida’s updated standards regarding slavery.

He’s getting what he wants.

A simple typo misdirected millions of emails intended for the US military.

It really is rife with problems.

Fun in the sunshine state.