Outside the Beltway

Letting wild claims drive the policy discourse.

Legions of unpaid drones . . . ? . . . budget cuts.

Politics, rhetoric, and the question of controlled burns.

Pro-tip: Googling BEFORE posting a Hot Take can save a lot of embarrasment

A hellscape of fire and destruction.

Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Oh my.

It’s not known if they’re related.

Yet again, a court affirms he committed sexual assault.

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.

What could go wrong?

The fight over the continuing resolution raises some questions.

Using money to control the GOP.

Nunes and Grinell.

The move paves the way for Kash Patel or another Trump appointee.

Oh my.

Another setback for Teheran.

Abusing power to prevent the abuse of power?

A dangerous choice that the Senate must reject.

Just lie about it.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

When the abnormal ceases to be.

A GOP member of Congress on deportations.

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

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

My turn.

Unreality and sexual anxiety on display.

For want of an apostrophe . . .

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

A modest disturbance in the force.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

Some direct evidence of the effects.

Vance is no Mike Pence.

The Hit King is gone at 83.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Mark Robinson is the latest example.

This time: Aurora, CO.

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

Donald Trump fared considerably worse against a cogent opponent.

A superstar athlete’s treatment by police raises troubling questions.

The election analyst is out on a limb with Trump.

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Yet another service disruption over rights fees calls attention to the issue.