Outside the Beltway

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

From a county-level race in New Mexico.

Pop those tabs!

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.

You-VAL-dee? You-VAHL-day? Oo-VAHL-deh?

The 45th President was a psychopath.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Political theater on the southern border.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

The governor of Texas vows to finish what Trump started.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

An epic but improbable win.

Barbados provides an illustration of a frequently misunderstood concept.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

It appears that normal safeguards were ignored, leading to disaster on the set.

The President’s approval has plummeted, largely because of factors outside his control.

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

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.

Whataboutism about a visit to Whataburger (and other tales of obfuscation).

The President hit all the right notes.

The tabs must be cleared.

Magical? Impressive? Or just too much money?

The southern one.

One party is divided on how to govern and the other is united in not governing.

A massive sting operation has been revealed.

A reckless campaign of violence has now targeted American journalists.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

Stenography is not journalism.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

The politics and the science are in conflict.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

At least 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca are sitting in American facilities unused.

It is really so hard to understand that you don’t go on vacation during a massive disaster?

The story played out just as we all thought it would.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

But, still very bad.

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.