Outside the Beltway

It’s easy if you try.

Underplaying the value of vaccination is counterproductive.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

What’s taking him so long?

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

Large chunks of a hackish report were lifted from previous works of Commission members.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

Meanwhile, a report states that a Trump admin official pushed infections to promote herd immunity.

Too little, too late.

Not another general.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Because he’s an idiot.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

The President’s message is getting through.

The purge of non-loyalists continues.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

Who’s to blame for the Blue Wave not materializing?

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Some surprising poll numbers.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

Is that wise?

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

New numbers show more consistency.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons

Remember how people used to think he was playing multi-dimensional chess?