Outside the Beltway

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

Yesterday showed that Biden understands the “dignified” part of politics.

President Biden masterfully used the pageantry of the day to shatter the self-asserted Trumpian monopoly on patriotism.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

President-Elect Biden is planning a big first few days, Congress be damned.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

Some of the Capitol rioters were much more dangerous than others.

Outliers are bad places to look for solid support of your argument.

The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

It’s finally officially official.

Kamala Harris will be very, very busy the next two years.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

That President-elect Biden is shaking up his protective detail isn’t unusual. The reason, however, is.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

Trump brags about being the “most admired” and provides yet another example of poor understanding of data.

The zombie idea for ousting an erratic and dangerous President.

For those wondering what a textbook coup would look like.

The Georgia governor and his family are under attack because he did his job.

He wanted a cabinet post. And this is a cabinet post.

Our long national farce is over.

Too little, too late.

Biden wins again.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

The phone tour continues.

Not another general.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

The farce will be with her. Always.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

This time in the PA Supreme Court

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

That’s unpossible!

Yet another retired general in the post would be a bad idea.

Team Trump and the WI recount.

Why isn’t Joe Biden President already?

Women in national security circles love this woman.

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.