Outside the Beltway

The Committee has some hard choices to make.

Trump goes full on climate denier on a big stage.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

The slur “Trump Derangement Syndrome” unintentionally captures something real about our world.

One piece of a larger puzzle.

Deciphering the meaning of a vague slogan.

Like Guy Fawkes, I got burnt!

Remember, remember the fifth of November…

My turn.

Elon is on record warning Trump supporters to be prepared for “temporary hardship”

How we feeling?

They won’t tell you who’s going to be President. They’re still useful.

Going solo has its disadvantages.

Taking a closer look at Cooper, Kelly, and Shapiro

A famed political forecaster doesn’t believe the polls.

Part of an ongoing conversation.

A few predictions that are going to disappoint just about everyone.

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

The innumeracy hurts.

Contrary to some public opinion, the economy is in decent shape.

The game is the game.

Its economic bubble has burst, which may make them more dangerous.

Must every topic be viewed through that lens?

Is America’s military capable of fighting the next war?

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

New documents reveal the internal deliberations of the Court.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

A surprising factoid in a bad election for the party.

Republicans hold narrow leads for Governor and Senator but . . . .

Open Forum for election chatter.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

There are too many variables to make generalized calculations.

Bargaining continues amidst poisoning and mass killing.

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

The serendipitous day off may soon be a thing of the past.

Two members of the presidential commission reach the conclusion that expansion is needed.

A blast from the past.

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

It’s not perfect but it beats our usual approach to picking winners and losers.