Outside the Beltway

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Too many! Too few!

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

Five minutes is an eternity in the current information environment.

Cruelty with compound interest.

The slide continues.

The big interview did little to ease doubts that he’s up to another four years.

A reasonable ruling clarifying a poorly-written prior opinion.

Part the millionth.

Progressive activists are preparing to “democracy-proof” the country.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

What out of control prosecutors and judges actually look like and why more people should be treated like former President Trump

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

A gross miscarriage of justice.

Compared to any available alternative, yes.

A potential GOP self-own in south Texas.

A disturbing dissection in the NYT Magazine.

Administrations are struggling to handle the biggest wave of student protests in generations.

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

Simplistic solutions to complex problems lead to human suffering.

A longstanding project inches forward.

A longstanding precedent may be in jeopardy.

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

Some of these have been piling up for a while.

The ruling could be more impactful than Dobbs. Or render Dobbs less impactful.

So many intentions to write, so little time.

Creeping authoritarianism? Political suicide? Descent into madness?

A long-overdue reform is meeting resistance.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

They’re fast running out of time to find a candidate.

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

The country music singer was 62.

Further escalation is inevitable.

Gregg Abbott is now defying the U.S. Supreme Court, forcing a showdown.

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

They don’t make ’em like they used to.

A literal Mexican stand-off.

No big surprises from the dumbest recurring contest in American politics.

The 9th Circuit says it is, at least under some circumstances.

Why we are where we are.

Some things shouldn’t be joked about (and they often aren’t jokes anyway).

Trump and Trump-adjacent stories for this round of Tabs.

A breakdown of new survey data.

The denial of transfer to Federal Court could signal problems for Trump’s Presidential Immunity Claims

Ignorance, it turns out, isn’t bliss.