Outside the Beltway

An American hero is gone.

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

At high noon.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

Competing priorities.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

The actor reflects on nearly three decades with Parkinson’s.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

A myriad of possible explanations.

The President’s claims have no merit.

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

The longtime host of Jeopardy! is gone.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

Trump needs them both.

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

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Up is down. Down is up.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

A variety of factors have led to better survival chances for those hospitalized with the disease.

Not the flu.

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

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

The Spaniard continues his quest to be the Greatest of All Time.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

His campaign now wants more live debates.

The President is not like other people.

A truly chaotic combination.

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

Should we question the timing?

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

A case where the truth doesn’t seem to matter.

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

Injecting data into the conversation.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

The Electoral College is once again having the opposite effect of what its defenders claim.

It will, however, be appealed to SCOTUS.

Are those with kids getting over?

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

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

My latest for Defense One.