Outside the Beltway

He has a solution for homelessness.

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

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

The politics of words.

The cruelty is the point?

Authoritarianism is popular.

Trump likes to use force.

A simple solution to a complex problem.

One expert says yes.

Orwell came to mind this morning.

A different take on our political realignment.

Cruel punishment is not unusual.

Does Nicholas Kristof make his case?

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

The 9th Circuit says it is, at least under some circumstances.

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

The cease-fire will end. What follows is not at all clear.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

The killing goes on.

Don’t get your hopes up.

A few people are committing the lion’s share of petty thefts in America’s biggest city.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

Cities across the United States are taking the wrong approach to a crisis.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

Antiquated counting methods lead to misallocation of resources.

Surprisingly, yes.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

Another example for the conversation.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

An unfunded mandate remains in place.

Great news—with a rather huge caveat.

A George Mason economist has an intriguing idea but maybe he has it backwards.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

Barr finds no fraud.

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Robert Mugabe led a nation to independence only to become a dictator who destroyed its economy, has died at the age of 95.

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Democrats have flipped the Senate seat currently held by Republican Jeff Flake.

A slight variant of the uniform from World War II and Korea is coming to a soldier near you.

The Trump Administration is preparing a policy change that will essentially define transgender Americans out of existence.