Outside the Beltway

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.

Because they’re indoctrinating the youth with their biased agendas and liberal, unfactual diastribes.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

Some of the other costs that come with exercising a constitutional right

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

Two related examples: are they “cancel culture” or not?

The SAT is a poor measure of college aptitude but it’s better than most others.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

Because of course it was.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

One can see the faintest hint of a backbone in the former Vice President.

The Commonwealth’s undemocratic political system is, shockingly, unrepresentative of the will of its people.

Greatest democracy in the world, right?

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

Because of course he did.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.

The beloved comedian and actor is gone at 65.

Fraudsters caught!

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.