Outside the Beltway

Pandemic-induced recession? What pandemic-induced recession?

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

The Supreme Court refused to block a lower court order.

It’s time to up our protection game.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

The virus is real and infections and exposures have consequences.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

The slow Alaska count came out as expected.

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

It’s getting worse, not better.

Some interesting findings from the preeminent Republican polling firm.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Trump needs them both.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

A whole ‘nother board came to a sane conclusion.

The Lone Star state is making up its own rules.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

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

The President has hit rock bottom.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

Life comes at you fast.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

Some incredibly thin reporting about a story that is almost certainly made up.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

A brand dating back to 1889 is being retired.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

You can guess the rest.

Some potentially good news for Biden,

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

Rand Paul still doesn’t get it.

She lost in both of her home states. She shouldn’t be embarrassed.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

CBS did a lousy job.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.