Outside the Beltway

Most leaders ring up Joe.

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

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

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.

The degree to which the country is divided is truly shocking.

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.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

The two parties learned different lessons from the last contested election.

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

Same endless song, different verse.

Not the flu.

Comparing the White House’s approach to that of sports leagues on testing.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

Thinking about what we might know on the night of the election.

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

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

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

His campaign now wants more live debates.

The President is not like other people.

Some numbers from PA and a CNN poll that gives Biden a huge lead.

The world’s worst COVID manager is now the world’s worst COVID patient.

No masks, no distancing, no caution.

The inevitable has happened.

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.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.

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

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

More good news for Biden.

A game wherein one team has to score more points to win than does the other.

The AG is not supposed to be the President’s personal attorney.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

Are those with kids getting over?

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

My latest for Defense One.