Outside the Beltway

That’s not how any of this works.

If the shoe doesn’t fit, wear it.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Plus: the Strait of Hormuz.

Lethality.

Plus CBS and the Trump administration keep forgetting about the Streisand Effect.

Other schools are likely to follow.

He’s back to easy street.

Trump’s style may obscure a lack of substance.

Making football schedules via EO.

The quest for the elusive Peace Prize continues.

Everybody knows you never go full MAGA.

Spouting opinions is far easier work that governing based on facts.

More polling.

Millions turned out in support of basic ideals.

Peace Prize in our time!

A reaffirmation rather than a revelation.

A few more details have emerged.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Cancel culture on steroids.

Yes it was said. No the context doesn’t make it better.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

This is the United States today.

The artless deal.

The takeaway of Hegseth’s video and the Pentagon’s clarification is meant to be obvious. 

Trump likes to use force.

The seemingly inevitable next step.

Colbert asks Harris a question about leadership.

Because of course.

…they aren’t that hard to get.

What? Retaliation from Iran?

Whatever that means.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

Trump and Netanyahu do not see eye to eye on the matter.

The information bubble is real.

What it tells us about race and the Trump administration.

Spoiler: it is about the abuse of presidential power.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

The relationship appears to be an inverse one.

Things have to be bad when they actually start to speak the truth to the President