Outside the Beltway

How they’re covering it.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Balancing the public’s desire to know and the potential for harm is not easy.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

A perennial outrage.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee lost his re-election.

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

When belief is more important than facts

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

For your consideration.

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

People, details do in fact matter!

The idiocy continues.

The actor known for his roles on “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire” is gone at 54.

More reminders that the pandemic is not over.

Vaccination is voluntary but refusal is not without consequence.

Credulous reports notwithstanding, there’s more to the story.

Competing priorities.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

Up is down. Down is up.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

Same endless song, different verse.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

As Election Day draws closer, the President is doubling down on stoking racial resentment.

Anonymous bullshit from the New York Post.

Shame on him for defending authoritarian actions.

Some inchorent musings about a massive question.

Bad journalism is not needed right now.

What do they know, anyway?

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

Tom Brady tried to trademark the nickname “Tom Terrific.” It didn’t go so well.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

Breathless coverage of this freshman Congressman is getting tiresome.

I am a sucker for a good People’s Front of Judea riff.

A quick hit and run post to provide a proper definition.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

The prosecutor who came to national prominence jumping on the #MeToo bandwagon has now been run over by it.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

Sometimes, it’s all in the framing.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”