Outside the Beltway

Nine ideologies. Two parties.

Are some of us more American than others?

The appointment of white supremacist to a State Department slot creates some thoughts.

This administration isn’t debating history. It’s distorting it for its own narrow purposes methodically. And predictably.

The Epstein fallout highlights differences in the US and UK systems.

A somewhat obsolete commemoration of a somewhat tepid celebration.

Come for the casual racism, stay for the weird aggrandizement of Dear Leader.

Our present-day politics reminds us that the “unfinished work” of democracy is never fully complete.  

Senator Mike Lee helps us understand what he means by “a republic, not a democracy.”

Don’t talk like one.

There’s a vast difference between someone getting dogpiled on social media and the most powerful man in the world using the machinery of the state to eliminate dissent.

And other tales of subverting knowledge and expertise on the altar of a preferred mythic narrative.

A window into White Christian Nationalism (as endorsed by Pete Hegseth!).

This time at the Georgia Capitol.

A strange fixaton.

Of course you realize this means war.

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

You can’t take the politics out of politics.

The renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk is a prominent illustration.

A case from rural Alabama.

Orwell came to mind this morning.

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

Subtle demographic changes may have created a tipping point.