Outside the Beltway

We’re in uncharted waters.

The former president faces multiple criminal prosecutions.

The jury awarded $5 million in damages

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

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

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

Legal analysts are skeptical.

It has begun.

Partisans gonna partisan.

A new poll seems to show that. Be skeptical.

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

And so it begins?

Who should pay whom for what?

The Manhattan DA could move as early as next week.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

The jury forewoman is offering hints.

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

Because I had a lot of open tabs.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

His businesses make and lose a lot of money.

The years-long NYC investigation finally bears some fruit.

An interesting wrinkle in the 2024 race.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

And a reminder about Bannon’s wall grift.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

The real crime is what’s legal.

Manhattan’s new DA seems to think he has a weak case.

The 45th President is unlikely to face Federal prosecution but state and civil suits are not going his way.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

The idiocy continues.

The veteran character actor has died of cancer at 66.

DC’s new area code is causing an identity crisis.

“Manhattan”

A big shoe has dropped.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

A few notes from the beach.

A typical case of American blind justice.

Separate investigations are merging, with a criminal component being added.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

Science, politics, and social norms intersect in some really strange ways.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

The semantic debate is obscuring the actual public policy issue.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

The Supreme Court refused to block a lower court order.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

The actor reflects on nearly three decades with Parkinson’s.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

The AG is not supposed to be the President’s personal attorney.

A mixed ruling: New York wins, Congress loses–but no release before the election.