Outside the Beltway

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

It’s been around for a very long time.

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

The country music singer was 62.

Gregg Abbott is now defying the U.S. Supreme Court, forcing a showdown.

A breakdown of new survey data.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

A tale of slow-moving bureaucracy.

The oldest state institutions of higher education are spending money to make money.

A quick follow-up to a previous post.

Train I ride, sixteen coaches long.

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

Some disturbing symbolism.

What was once impossible, then inevitable, has now happened.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

We can’t find enough people to treat cows, pigs, and horses.

A former dissertation advisor and two Army War College professors are speaking out against the gubernatorial candidate.

It goes deeper than base names.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

A decades-long decline has ended.

An ugly divorce exposes a gap in our legal structure.

The craziest damn thing you’ve ever heard of or a secret message to the crazies?

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

The next boot has dropped.

The politicization of the virus continues.

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

A long-overdue change appears to be happening.

A new story archetype is all too common.

Part of the ongoing, slow-motion tragedy.

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

The inevitable is now very much in progress.

Here we go again.

Many states are moving to a first come, first served basis for COVID shots.

The author of “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment,” and so many more great novels is gone at 84.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

Too little, too late.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

A mind-boggling statistic.

Her Democratic opponent has conceded.

The Army is finally getting its World War II uniforms, one base at a time.