Outside the Beltway

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

A modest disturbance in the force.

The talk show pioneer is gone at 88.

Unity is good, and “coronation” is the wrong word.

Impeach the Justices! Pack the Court!

A morally right but politically fraught move.

Two data points are not a trend.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Because I really do need to close some of these tabs.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

An ugly divorce exposes a gap in our legal structure.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

Drug smuggling edition.

Gotta make space for all the new tabs that we are going to get for Christmas!

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

It really does feel like a daily occurrence.

Truly the dumbest timeline.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

One political scientist says yes. A bunch of others say wait, what?

The President is committing enough high crimes and misdemeanors without us manufacturing them.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

There are even higher obligations than taking care of Marines.

Grammar and spelling errors abound at all but a handful of news sites.

For decades, it was the preeminent brand in American journalism. Now its pieces are being sold at bargain rates.

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

You many have noticed the array of images and links under the footer of post pages. Here’s what it is.

While I don’t always agree with her, I’ve never ceased to be amazed at the sheer vitriol she inspires, given that she’s unfailingly polite, not discernibly partisan, and bends over backwards to acknowledge the merits of competing viewpoints.

Norway is poised to make some big changes to its drug laws.

There’s something in the water up at Harvard……

While there are real differences between what’s being reported about White House officials such as Jared Kushner and what Hillary Clinton did, the charge of hypocrisy is well-founded.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

If you think that once elected Trump will be corralled by cooler heads and experts, I would submit to you that this week underscores this will not be the case.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

The reclusive author of one of the greatest American novels ever written has died at the age of 89.

New allegations regarding foreign government donations to the Clinton Foundation seem likely to become a campaign issue.

President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.