Outside the Beltway

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

The iconic basketball player, coach, and civil rights leader is gone at 88.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

An already awful system on steroids.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Because of course it was.

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?

An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing

Even liberal states like California and Massachusetts are moving on.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

A majority of Americans are less than sure that Biden won the 2020 election.

Why are we still wearing cloth, which was an emergency measure?

That didn’t take long.

It’s not compelling.

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

Working conditions rather than labor supply seems to be the issue.

Tip O’Neil’s famous saying hasn’t been true in a long, long time.

Let’s look at the numbers and the clear effects of policy choices.

The evidence is pretty clear: vaccinations are key, not weather (but that won’t stop people from trying to say otherwise).

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

The long demographic trend continues.

Despite a rising groundswell of support, the obvious solution to our crisis has not been implemented.

Guidance from WHO, CDC, and local governments differs widely and for good reason.

The author of beloved children’s books is gone at 91.

Looking to Federalist 22.

The reaction to the pandemic has long since been about much more than the pandemic.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

The lack of common understandings and shared assumptions makes political conversations challenging.

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

An all-time boxing legend is gone.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

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

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

Competing priorities.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

Injecting data into the conversation.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons