Outside the Beltway

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

Who should pay whom for what?

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Here we go again.

Teachers are frustrated over interference from outside.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

As tired as we may be of him, his nominating electorate appears ready for another round.

I somehow missed Google’s launch of a service that solves the biggest annoyance of streaming.

ChatGPT is just the latest example of a perverse phenomenon.

Why was it released to the public?

Playing two-level games.

The folk rock legend is gone at 81.

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

A legendary guitarist is gone at 78.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

The race is on before the 89-year-old has announced her intentions.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

The Army has done the right thing the wrong way.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

“You can’t be against everything.”

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

Is this how the cult ends?

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

Our English-speaking brethren have much less tolerance for massacres than we do.

Losing has a way of creating intraparty strife.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

Well, kind of, but not really.

A low bar has been cleared.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

A few stories to consider.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

The social platform beloved of the intellectual class is about to undergo radical change.

Planned staff layoffs concern those who fear a free-for-all.

In the weeds of civil-military relations.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Cable news v. court edition.

The Russian leader may be looking over his shoulder after imposing a draft.

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

A song and some passing thoughts on supermarket tabloids.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.