Outside the Beltway

Alabama’s head football coach and athletic director have both tested positive for COVID-19.

Sigh.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

Conspiracy theories are poisoning the United States. That’s no joke.

Something significant was going to happen to Tulsa. Who could have predicted a genre shift?

A solid piece of satire.

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

The President of the United States has sent a bizarre, rant-filled letter to the Speaker of the House. Revealing just how unbalanced he actually is.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

America’s Newspaper of Record has decided the backlash isn’t worth it.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Most of us define ourselves largely through our jobs. That’s increasingly a problem.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

The emergence of a silly talking point.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Rather than cauterizing an open wound, she’s fanned the fuels of a fire.

At this point, corruption, dishonesty, and insanity are just baked in.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

An ugly day for the United States Senate and the United States of America.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

Thanks to mostly what amounts to bad science reporting in the popular media, a false claim about one of nature’s most mysterious and unique creatures continues to spread.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

For every Trump tweet, there is literally something that says exactly the opposite.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

Administration officials are admitting that it’s likely that Russia will try to interfere in the midterm elections just as it did in 2016, but they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it.

Mostly it just tells us that Nunes and his allies are hacks.

And a little Electoral College for good measure.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making it clear she has no intention of leaving office before the 2020 election.

Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times suffers a significant setback.

President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.

Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.

Jeb Bush predicted that Donald Trump would preside over a “chaos Presidency,” and he was right.

The President gathered supporters around him, and blatantly lied to them, so as to increase support for his policies.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

President Obama signed a law vastly expanding public access to government records yesterday. In other news . . . .

The U.S. is poised to send troops to the front lines of yet another war we have no reason to be involved in.

Donald Trump racks up another big win, while Marco Rubio surges into second and likely saves his campaign for now.

Ted Cruz won, Marco Rubio surged into a stronger than expected third place, and Donald Trump was humbled just a little bit, but he was hardly a “loser.” The race for the GOP nomination has begun for real.

Glenn Frey, bandleader of the Eagles, has died.