Outside the Beltway

“Red States” and “Blue State”

A lot of huge investments have failed for a variety of reasons.

His businesses make and lose a lot of money.

Is this how the cult ends?

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

The years-long NYC investigation finally bears some fruit.

Hurricane Ian renews some perennial questions about recovering from natural disasters.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

Apparently, Charles III is quite well off.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

The real crime is what’s legal.

Does it matter whether she’s a rube or a mastermind?

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

It seems that some Americans are relocating to be with people who share their social and cultural views.

The SNL comic has died of cancer at 61.

A big shoe has dropped.

A typical case of American blind justice.

An unfunded mandate remains in place.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

Should we question the timing?

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

Despite denials and dismissals, it is clear that being an impeached President is getting under Trump’s skin.

October’s jobs report came back better than expected but hardly something to cheer.

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

A familiar name has entered the race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

On the Sunday shows today, one of the President’s top aides insisted that the Administration is seriously looking at the idea of buying Greenland even though it isn’t for sale.

This timeline is just so weird.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

It burns.

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.