Outside the Beltway

The lockdowns are ending and likely not coming back.

Iowa Republicans have had enough of being represented by a racist buffoon.

The system makes it next to impossible to punish bad cops.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

All the deaths are fit to print.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

A new study finds earlier lockdowns could have saved 54,000 lives by early May.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

A new study estimates how many lives were saved in 30 American cities.

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

He is claiming his response to Covid-19 is better than the previous administration’s response to H1N1

“Will some people be affected badly? Yes.”

He revolutionized how we think of male homosexuality.

The coaching legend led the 1972 Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in NFL history.

Some inchorent musings about a massive question.

These are serious allegations.

No. Just no.

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

These figures indicate that we are experiencing a serious global health crisis that is, empirically, a deviation from the norm.

Bad journalism is not needed right now.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

The bad news keeps on coming.

People who keep calling Covid-19 “just the flu” haven’t looked very closely at the numbers.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

A startling statistic.

A great songwriter is gone at 73.

The disease has killed three times the September 11 attacks in the last week.

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

Everything is easier with money.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Gina Raimondo has apparently lost her copy of the Constituiton.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

This is no ordinary recession.

A sign of the times.