Outside the Beltway

Presidents have wide latitude in this area but many say 47 is exceeding his authority.

The country’s citizens are enduring power outages while Saudis are making deals for cutting-edge technology.

A lifetime ban now ends with death.

Don’t worry! Trade wars are good and are easy to win.

A series of orders impacting military education.

Arresting Newark Mayor Baraka is clearly a signal.

Spoiler: it is about the abuse of presidential power.

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

For reasons.

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming for white collar jobs.

Even Republicans are balking at some Trump policies.

The polls are showing a really weird dynamic.

Public misconceptions about federal waste invite tolerance for questionable workarounds to the constitutionally prescribed manner of determining appropriations.

The 88-year-old Bishop of Rome has died.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

Or they maybe happening at 10%… Who knows?! Clearly not the White House.

…and I write a bit more than that.

Nationwide protests yesterday show a growing outrage over Trump 2.0.

He filibustered nothing for a very long time.

A great actor is gone at 65.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

Yet another test of Executive power for the courts to resolve.

First thing we do, let’s intimidate all the lawyers.

The boxing great and grill pitchman is gone at 76.

Can we say the administration is putting people in camps?

They don’t want to give Trump what he wants, so they’re giving him what he wants.

Deciphering the meaning of a vague slogan.

The legendary actor is gone at 95.

The sadly predicted has come to pass.

The R&B icon is gone at 88.

Beware the Ides of March.

The abuse of power is obvious.

The inevitable happened, inevitably.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

The details matter.

Trade wars are good and easy to win.

This should be unacceptable, yet here we are.

Federal workers are afraid and in the dark.

And remembering “jokes” about governing like a dictator.

How they’re covering it.

The Curtis Yarvin interview.

It “literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

Blue states might get some surprising help.

The honey badger strikes again.

The culture seems to be shifting.

Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Barrett sided with the Court’s liberals.