Outside the Beltway

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

Stories of interest/that I am not going to get around to writing more about. (And yes, these are really all open tabs that I want to close).

A legal defense without merit.

An extremely unlikely scenario.

The Wall Street Journal failed a key test.

We’re in uncharted waters.

This time, it’s the feds.

A Brooklyn neighborhood is experimenting with a hybrid approach.

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

They join DC and San Francisco.

A columnist argues his failed launch was emblematic of a larger problem.

A rare man and a rare milestone.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

The leveling of Bakhmut is the latest Russian atrocity.

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

The times, they are a-changin’.

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

The show about nothing has a big legacy.

The mommy blogger known as “Dooce” has taken her own life.

The courts can’t save us from ourselves.

Long after most people returned to normal, public health agencies have given in.

The punishments are increasing as the worst of the worst are sentenced.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

A few people are committing the lion’s share of petty thefts in America’s biggest city.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The inevitable next shoe has dropped.

A wildly ambitious goal.

An old soldier has faded away.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

Legal analysts are skeptical.

It has begun.

Cities are lowering or doing away with longstanding requirements to provide spaces.

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

People are leaving our cities for the suburbs. But not on an equal basis.

And so it begins?

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

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 Netanyahu government is facing massive strikes and protests over its latest authoritarian moves.

Who should pay whom for what?

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