Outside the Beltway

Hollywood and the news media are roiled in labor disputes.

There’s been a load of compromising.

Get me higher than the grocery bill.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Don’t get your hopes up.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

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

Most high-income Congressional Districts are Democratic and low-income Districts are Republican.

A wildly ambitious goal.

A key pathway to success for low-income citizens isn’t working.

Sanctions and a costly war are taking their toll.

The company will debut an all-electric “Explorer” in Europe.

The Biden administration had little choice but to act.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

A lot of huge investments have failed for a variety of reasons.

The Biden administration has a point.

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

A second stash has led to a special counsel and political embarrassment.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

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

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

The Energy Department is expected to make a big announcement tomorrow.

Did you even notice?

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

The lines aren’t everything, but they need more attention than they get.

Covering the coverage.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The numbers aren’t real. Not yet, anyway.

Most don’t even know it passed!

Is the President governing like he means it?

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

The party in the White House is likely to lose seats.

A bit of a rant, I expect.

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

The race is returning to expectation.

She is the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in British history.

The largest adjustment since the tax code was indexed in 1985.

The Fed is expected to stall the economy to fight inflation.

Manipulating public opinion with dubious survey research.

Is that right? If so, is it reasonable?

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

What’s being billed as the largest hike in years is anything but.

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

They’re spending millions on issue ads in the wake of Dobbs.