Outside the Beltway

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

A thought inspired by the PA Senate race.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

Republicans have died at a far higher rate than Democrats.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Hurricane Ian renews some perennial questions about recovering from natural disasters.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

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

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

For the first time in a long time, Presidential approval numbers and voter preferences aren’t’ aligned.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

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

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

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

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

Are 20 arrests worth a $1.2 million dollar investment?

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!”

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

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.”

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

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

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

it likely won’t do much.

The longest-serving Supreme Court Justice is a nice guy.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

It’s not all about Trump.

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

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

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

Has a franchise that’s always been political gone too far?

Assumptions of racial animus are overshadowing a story that’s outrageous enough on its own.

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.