Outside the Beltway

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

No, I am not kidding.

In the end there can be only one.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

“Dr. Ruth” is gone at 96.

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics is gone at 90.

Creeping authoritarianism? Political suicide? Descent into madness?

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

What should be the bar? Can it ever be reached?

A complicated case out of NYU.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

It’s been more of a reading than writing morning.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

There’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Our system lacks accountability.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

The pandemic seems to have broken the social contract.

A provision of the 14th Amendment to keep Civil War generals out of office is back in play.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

Representatives Choosing Their Voters Rather than Vice Versa, Chapter 412.

Reading disparate polling numbers critically.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

An accomplished racist will no longer be honored by the university.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

How finite is prestige?