Outside the Beltway

It would be nice if all the ridiculous news was, in fact, just an April Fool’s joke…

The Nick Fuentes phenomenon.

Dangerous in more ways than one.

We can’t afford to repeatedly make the same mistake.

Rethinking what qualities we should be looking for in Supreme Court Justices.

Sure, there’s a lot of crap out there. But it’s easier to find good information and engage with experts than ever.

Suddenly, it seems like every website known to man is foisting videos that play the instant the page loads on their readers.

Enough with the 57 states.

Save water: Grow a beard.

Newt is looking a bit toasty to me (not that that is a surprising position to take).

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

And when did it know it?

The birthers are dead (kinda), so long live the transcripters!

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

At least 128 are dead, with the toll expected to rise, in the flurry of tornadoes that hit Alabama yesterday.

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

What’s the historic trend on dollar weakness?

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest

Republican budget cuts to this point have been less than serious.

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

The lines between our public and professional identities and our private and social ones continue to blur.