Outside the Beltway

The 47th President is flooding the zone.

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

They are not like you and me.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

The weirdness of this year’s polling gives the President’s team hope.

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

You can lead a horse to water, but the trick is the drinking.

No, I don’t feel terrible now.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

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.

A columnist argues his failed launch was emblematic of a larger problem.

A format unchanged since the Ford Administration* doesn’t suit the modern era.

Tucker is one of those “elites” he saying hates his audience.

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

Waaaay too little, waaay too late.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

Some quick hits.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

The silly season has commenced a mite early.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

We’re hurting the feelings of those trying to destroy the country.

The media became the story but the President was the news.

The reflections on the departed right-wing talk host continue.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

Expert analysis from expert analysts

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

Tip O’Neill was famous for once having advised his fellow Democrats that “all politics is local.” That’s not true anymore, and that’s unfortunate.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

Former Vice-President Biden’s eulogy for his friend John McCain is a lesson in what has gone wrong with American politics.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who used to be a Trump favorite, is out with a book that makes sensationalistic claims about the Trump Administration. The real story, though, is what she has on tape and how she got it.

The Republican Party’s nominee for Senator in Virginia really is as bad as you’ve heard, probably worse.

Based on what can only be described as pure vindictiveness, the President is apparently planning on revoking security clearances of former officials who have been outspoken against the Administration and its policies.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

President Trump is claiming that he didn’t fire former F.B.I. Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, even though he admitted the exact opposite just weeks after it happened.