Outside the Beltway

But, unfortunately, not exactly gone, either.

Preliminary thoughts from several columnists.

Plus, a headline reaction.

The actor and director is gone at 89.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

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

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

We must choose hope over despair.

In this case, Noem’s rent-free living.

India and Pakistan are playing a dangerous game of tit for tat.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

Let’s take a moment to recognize our grief, and what it means.

The 45th President and the press, part a million.

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

A reflection the Trump campaign with helpf from James Baldwin

A relatively strong performance doesn’t change the narrative.

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

Two candidates enter. One candidate leaves.

An unconvincing column from an old pro.

The show about nothing has a big legacy.

Our English-speaking brethren have much less tolerance for massacres than we do.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly