Outside the Beltway

Hesitancy is a complex phenomenon largely immune to facts.

That didn’t take long.

This time: some multi-party examples.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

Some stories of possible interest.

Some 98 percent of active service members are now vaccinated. The rest will be discharged.

Assessing her actions in 2018 in light of 2020 and onward.

He is heading to CNN+

A long peek at history in the making.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

Children are starving and it’s partly our fault.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Gotta clear them all.

There will be two chickens in every pot this holiday season. Maybe three.

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

The language is going to iel in a handcart.

Representatives Choosing Their Voters Rather than Vice Versa, Chapter 412.

Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.

A just verdict—but just a verdict.

A scary if misleading factoid.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

The erosion of representativeness continues.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Why oh why won’t people stop commenting on the lady Senator’s outfits?

The next boot has dropped.

The erstwhile QAnon Shaman will spend another three-and-a-half years in jail.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

Working conditions rather than labor supply seems to be the issue.

He’s controversial but consistent.

Mayor Pete is being mocked for telling obvious truths.

It turns out “the economy” isn’t just one thing.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

Officers are under enormous pressure–including from the Federal government–to write tickets.

Cases per state adjusted for population.

Let’s look at the numbers and the clear effects of policy choices.

The veteran character actor has died of cancer at 66.

It appears that normal safeguards were ignored, leading to disaster on the set.

Is the Worldwide Leader responsible oblivious to bigotry?

A spectacular fall for a man who has been at the center of the football world for three decades.

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

Apparently, it’s higher than 67.

On mandates and other miscellany.

The number continues to rise.

The Democrats are apparently selling their omnibus spending package the wrong way.

Several stories for your consumption.

President Biden was advised to keep troops in Afghanistan . . . for no apparent reason.

Politics is not a game.

This is no way to run a railroad.