Outside the Beltway

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

A Duke history professor uncovers “stealth plan” by “fifth columnists” who are seeking to overthrow democracy in the U.S. for their plutocrat masters.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

People don’t much care whether information supporting their prejudices is true.

The post title is quite the recurring question, it would seem.

A great American writer has passed away.

Some 2000 veterans of World War II were lobotomized by the VA. That’s awful but not outrageous.

Nobel physicist Peter Higgs says he could not make it in academia today.

An agency has won the Nobel Peace Prize for something that hasn’t happened yet.

To maintain growth China needs to consider its priorities.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

Welcome to the latest crazy scheme to avoid reality.

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

Paul Krugman’s latest column, “Depression and Democracy,” is simply bizarre.