Outside the Beltway

Tucker, Fuentes, and Heritage. Oh My!

Don’t talk like one.

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

There are no satisfying answers.

An example linked to USAID

This should be unacceptable, yet here we are.

Words to the AfD.

A billionaire troll with a West Wing office.

Hitler comparisons.

Who did Nazi this coming?

Too many! Too few!

Stoking anti-Semitism for political gain

“Dr. Ruth” is gone at 96.

A potential GOP self-own in south Texas.

Neither side is willing to give up on its war aims just yet.

Great comics combine social commentary with humor. Increasingly, they’ve skipping the latter.

The coiner of Godwin’s law gives his blessing.

The inevitable has happened.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

Leading candidate for Republican nomination deploys eliminationist rhetoric in Veteran’s Day speech.

A poll on Israeli support.

What does “complete victory” look like?

Marianne Williamson is getting some competition.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

Could it be that he was untruthful?

Enjoy.

Do his achievements and good works outweigh his virulent antisemitism?

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

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

What are the limits of representation?

A brief obeservation.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Since when is it a crime to say stupid things on “The View”?

People, details do in fact matter!

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

A conversation in two parts.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.