Outside the Beltway

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

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

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

The BBC checks the facts.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

Western intelligence agencies continue to predict an invasion under absurd pretexts.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

Elections have consequences: Old Dominion Edition

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

A conversation in two parts.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

Tab clearing time.

Or, you know, not.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

The U.S. Senators and a U.S. Representative beg to differ.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

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

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

More on a dangerous and disturbing incident in Texas

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

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

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

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

A pleasant surprise.

Trump basically confirmed all but one aspect of the Atlantic story.

As Election Day draws closer, the President is doubling down on stoking racial resentment.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

Conspiracy theories are poisoning the United States. That’s no joke.