Outside the Beltway

Not just dumb, but dangerous too.

Unequal treatment for senior officials is the norm, like it or not.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

A small but positive step.

Thousands of LGBTQ veterans are seeking to have their discharges upgraded.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

A weird twist to the online leak story.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in again… [update: x2]

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

The 45th President was a psychopath.

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Credulous reports notwithstanding, there’s more to the story.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Only the best people.

A book out today makes an odd case.

A newly released report leaked from inside the British Government notes that a hard Brexit is likely to be a disaster for the British economy.