Outside the Beltway

An interesting blast from the past.

Debunking urban legends and Internet rumors is harder than it used to be.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Not.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

So. Much. Winning.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Trump is careless with his words and extremists respond.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

It’s finally officially official.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

Social media makes the line much harder to draw.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

A very low-spoilers review.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The Georgia governor and his family are under attack because he did his job.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

A sad and disturbing report from a reliable source.

Masklessly criss-crossing the country.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

“Now this campaign is over, what is the will of the people? What is our mandate?”

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

Sigh.

Not the flu.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

It turns out, he wasn’t hacked. (Spoiler: They’re never hacked.)

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

They are standing by as ordered.

Sigh.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

A pleasant surprise.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.