Outside the Beltway

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

His party got destroyed in EU elections, so he’s doubling down.

A long tradition continues unabated.

Explaining the inexplicable.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

Americans have taken the dominance of the Women’s National Team for granted.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Membership is stalled by more support is coming.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

The silly season has commenced a mite early.

Barbados provides an illustration of a frequently misunderstood concept.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

The Spaniard continues his quest to be the Greatest of All Time.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

It’s time to accept the desecration of our political constitution.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Not that one. The other one.

The architect of the plan admits he was wrong.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

The counting methodology is flawed and that’s assuming honest reporting.

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

A grim milestone.

A startling statistic.

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

New estimates place the Cowboys and Yankees at the top of the list of the most valuable sports franchises in the world.

The victory of the U.S. Women’s team in the World Cup has renewed a long-standing argument over pay equity, but the issue is far more complicated than it seems.

The U.S. Women’s National Team won their second consecutive World Cup, their fourth overall, in a 2-0 win over The Netherlands.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

With his attempt to overthrow the government clearly a failure, Juan Guaidó is back to calling for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

The North American delegation has won the right to lose a whole lot of money putting on a soccer tournament.

Dan Coates, the Director of National Intelligence, has issued a strong warning that has received little attention.

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

The President’s new attempt to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military is as legally defective as the original ban was.