Outside the Beltway

A massive expansion of the Pell Grant program for prisoners goes into effect next month.

Protests against the governing party signal tensions in advance of fall elections.

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

There’s been a load of compromising.

Tuberville claims he was taken “out of context.”

We almost wrecked the economy . . . for this?

They join DC and San Francisco.

Perfect timing, it would seem.

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

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

A bill in Alabama would bar Chinese nationals from buying property in the state.

An odd set of Senators have a really bad idea.

We’re getting weird policies almost nobody is asking for.

France shines new light on an old problem.

It’s time to ban a growing and dangerous practice.

A sensible compromise on a controversial issue.

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

The Netanyahu government is facing massive strikes and protests over its latest authoritarian moves.

Who should pay whom for what?

DC has radically expanded its electorate.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

Here we go again.

The fight over changing the clock twice a year continues.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

A chance for readers to play political strategists

Teachers are frustrated over interference from outside.

Some Democrats are angry!

What’s that phrased about broken clocks?

A seemingly benign but controversial gesture.

Some of these things are not like the other.

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

The state of the union is . . . not good.

A silly workaround to an infuriating problem that won’t go away.

The Biden administration has a point.

The infuriating fight to authorize spending already-allocated money is back.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

You gotta have the votes.

He is proving the opposite of his argument.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

“You can’t be against everything.”

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

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

Electoral Count Act reforms are “hidden” in the bipartisan budget bill.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.