Outside the Beltway

One thread that runs through most explanations for Tuesday’s result.

A different take on our political realignment.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

Why press coverage of the former and possibly future President doesn’t match the reality.

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

An FNC report on the Alaska House race is a mess.

From Juiceboxer to arguably the most important media figure on the left.

Are the press out to get the President? Or abetting a coverup?

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.

Quick thought on fundraising.

Sally Buzzee is out and the staff is “pissed.” Readers will likely notice no difference.

Its time has passed.

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

The AP journalist taken hostage for almost seven years has died.

The longtime NPR host is gone at 76.

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

The game is the game.

Much ado about nothing?

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

It’s Nixon’s fault?

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

A $787.5 million flesh wound.

He’s likely to make heads explode.

Who should pay whom for what?

A significant cut to staff and programming to stay afloat.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Another reason so many get their information from biased outlets.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research