Outside the Beltway

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

Impressive photojournalism.

Sally Buzzee is out and the staff is “pissed.” Readers will likely notice no difference.

And this doesn’t even clear them all!

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

The legendary AP politics reporter is gone at 87.

People, details do in fact matter!

A favorite anecdote from Robert Caro’s first masterpiece is likely untrue.

UNC’s loss is the nation’s most prestigious HBCU’s gain.

A truly bizarre controversy at Chapel Hill.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

The author of “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment,” and so many more great novels is gone at 84.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

The norms of social discourse are rapidly changing in the #MeToo era.

America’s Newspaper of Record has decided the backlash isn’t worth it.

Some reports are saying that Roy Moore will run for the GOP nomination for Senate again in 2020.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

New allegations of sexual misconduct mark the start of a crucial week for the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

The #MeToo movement brings down the head of a Fortune 500 company.

Iconic Broadway legend Neil Simon, who was responsible for hits such as “The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.

One of the biggest names in Hollywood stands accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women in yet another ground-breaking report by Ronan Farrow.

A towering figure gone much too soon.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

The prosecutor who came to national prominence jumping on the #MeToo bandwagon has now been run over by it.

Based on his recent behavior, it’s clear that the President is worried about how loyal Michael Cohen might actually turn out to be.

The school district in Biloxi, Mississippi has removed ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th-grade reading list because it “makes people uncomfortable.”

Another television icon has passed away.

Woman who liberated slaves to replace slaveholding President who presided over Native American genocide on American currency.

The reclusive author of one of the greatest American novels ever written has died at the age of 89.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Keith Collins and Nikhil Sonnad provide strong evidence that the “sequel” to Harper Lee’s classic novel was merely a bad first draft.

The former Olympian has made a transition.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.