Outside the Beltway

Thinking about how what is known about Trump and Epstein.

ABC and ESPN networks are off YouTubeTV for a second weekend.

The move to build Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom is moving at record speed.

They were looking for a show to steal. They were fine with contracts that bind. And they were willing to make a deal

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

Hyperbole? Dishonesty? Distraction? Fantasy? Too much cable TV?

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

The actor and director is gone at 89.

Yes it was said. No the context doesn’t make it better.

Are Democrats triggering voters by pushing the Overton Window on language, thereby subverting norms and creating barriers to participation?

A heavy-handed move.

Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore?

Nuclear reactors to the moon!

The mathematician best known for his satirical songs is gone at 97.

The heavy metal legend has passed at 76.

The actor best known for his role on “The Cosby Show” has died at 54.

The end of an era.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

This ain’t 1976.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

This week: Star Trek: The Animated Series.

The war is on.

The country’s citizens are enduring power outages while Saudis are making deals for cutting-edge technology.

Who could have known?

Spoiler: it is about the abuse of presidential power.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

Perhaps it’s just as well.

…and I write a bit more than that.

A great actor is gone at 65.

The boxing great and grill pitchman is gone at 76.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

It made history in many ways.

The legendary actor is gone at 95.

But a centrist grand coalition will likely govern.

The retired 3-star National Guard officer is an unorthodox pick.

We deserve better than clowns giving political commentary.

Trump’s reaction to the air disaster is telling in a variety of ways.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers insurrectionists are now free.

“…but I didn’t vote for that.”

Title IX, football, and the economics of college athletics.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Another setback for Teheran.

The cruelty isn’t the point.

Breaking News

The politics of humiliation and gaslighting.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

When the abnormal ceases to be.

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

After 29 days . . . a proportionate response.