Outside the Beltway

The administration continues to show its ideological stripes.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

“Influencer” Benny Johnson wants to bulldoze certain neighborhoods in DC.

A strange fixaton.

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

These sweet, anxious, thoughtful, and genuinely loveable students know in their bones that their future is deeply uncertain and shaped by adults who appear to have no idea what they’re doing.

It was rather unusual.

A series of orders impacting military education.

A case from rural Alabama.

Three members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been fired.

Remember kids, DEI is the REAL racism

Trump’s reaction to the air disaster is telling in a variety of ways.

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

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

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

How that awful man won again.

It’s the opposite of politics as usual.

The MSG rally.

Stupid is as stupid does.

And more silence from our MAGA aligned commenters

Trump’s Anti-Black, Anti-Haitian Propaganda Is Harming Real People

Thoughts that didn’t fit in my last post

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

A microcosm of the campaigns and the candidates.

Stoking anti-Semitism for political gain

The anti-DEI party is suddenly really concerned about identity

Trump at the NABJ.

Facts versus framing, with a little Mandela effect thrown in for good measure.

Reggie Jackson and playing baseball in the Deep South.

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

Voters in Mexico, India, and South Africa are making their voices heard.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

After weeks of protest, a solid effort.

Seven decades after de jure segregation was outlawed, de facto segregation is alive and well.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

Are we betraying the Founders?

A legendary actor is gone at 87.

A long tradition continues unabated.

It’s harder than I would have thought.

The politics of chaos.

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

Apparently, Making Germany Great Again is controversial.

On racism, Republicans, and names