Outside the Beltway

Ignorance and motivated reasoning are never a good combination

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

Its time has passed.

California is leading the way on a wildly popular initiative.

A new report puts the conversation in a different light.

A truly weird story.

A shameful farce.

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.

It’s time for transparency on the Republican Leader’s health.

It’s the only one that puts all the piece together.

It’s Nixon’s fault?

His lawyers and Democratic lawmakers are urging an exception.

Should businesses have to include taxes and other fees in their advertised price?

Eight state have withdrawn from a system to prevent illegal voting because of ignorance and agitation.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Some of these things are not like the other.

The silliness of “generations.”

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

Constant flight delays and other frustrations require a solution.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

It would be an abuse of power.

Shockingly, the Defense Department doesn’t keep up with former employees.

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

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

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

An odd kerfuffle in local education politics.

Some of the other costs that come with exercising a constitutional right

They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue

More brutality from an ostensible US ally.

It would appear to be the case.

Elections have consequences: Old Dominion Edition

For anyone who might be interested.

Making sense of a weird story.

The risks are real but the rewards are spectacular.

Mediocre legal education doesn’t pay.

A new career and a pending art sale.

The southern one.

A law seeking to help the state’s workers seems to be having the opposite effect.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

Mostly about how not to do it.