Outside the Beltway

The former President gets too much credit for his ability to manipulate news coverage.

The Russian leader’s status as an international pariah is cemented.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

Here we go again.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

Some Democrats are angry!

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

The Greatest of All Time is hanging up his cleats a year too late.

Someone has stepped up to challenge former President Trump.

Why was it released to the public?

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

The folk rock legend is gone at 81.

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

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

Open access to party labels has consequences.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

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

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

Mike Pompeo’s PAC wants you to know that Mike Pompeo’s book is a “thriller with stories from the heart” of Mike Pompeo

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

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Some amazing images.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

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

A couple of old cartoons feel like they could have been published today.

In case you need some NYD reading.

But did he ever really have it?

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research

So proclaims American Greatness.

I don’t think that means what he thinks it means.

Is this how the cult ends?

Plus misleading reporting.

Knowing what FNC is likely saying without watching FNC.

Because of course she is.

The launch of a new feature… featuring Drake!

The response to extreme rhetoric from Trump is producing the some old responses.

The man is a dangerous nut.

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

Some links to peruse.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

Tales from the GA campaign trail.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

This one at the University of Virginia.