Outside the Beltway

The actor best known for his roles as Jackie Robinson and Black Panther has been lost to cancer.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

More evidence that we are under-counting deaths due to Covid-19.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

To mix cultural references: less than meets the eye.

Remember how people used to think he was playing multi-dimensional chess?

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

A great character actor is gone.

The rules are different if you’re famous.

McConnell and McCarthy both reject the notion of a delay.

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

Trump made up an invitation to throw out the first pitch.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

A bizarre but possibly correct ruling by the Supreme Court.

Partial credit at best, however.

Federal agents deployed nonlethal force against peaceful demonstrators.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

A civil rights legend has passed.

Telecommuting has taken a bite out of an industry built on commuting.

The President does not like his poll numbers.

The weirdness of Internet outrage culture.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

A mixed ruling: New York wins, Congress loses–but no release before the election.

The venerable apparel company is having a hard go of it.

Free speech is not for everyone.

The Natanz fuel enrichment site has been seriously damaged.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The emotional and economic impact of the pandemic is hitting women especially hard.

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

A legendary comic is gone.

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

Joementum.

President Trump is behind 14 points in the latest NYT poll.

The President gave a delusional rant to a half-empty stadium thanks to some crazy kids.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.