Outside the Beltway

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.

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Too many people still don’t understand the idea behind ‘flattening the curve.’ That includes our President.

People who should know better are making ridiculous claims.

As if the country needed more turmoil.

Trading has resumed after an early plunge triggered automatic suspension.

Fears have reduced demand for public transit.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

There’s nothing to see here, folks.

The inevitable has happened.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

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

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

CBS did a lousy job.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

Could the fevered dream really come true?

We now have five candidates in double-digits.