Outside the Beltway

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

An example of when better isn’t better.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

A brief obeservation.

Another morale booster for the good guys.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

Hoisted by their own petard.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

Is the creepy comic’s comeback complete?

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

It’s okay to ask a war criminal for some political dirt on your opponent, right?

Two related examples: are they “cancel culture” or not?

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

And other tales from the AK special election.

The is a 7 hour gap in the phone logs at the White House from January 6, 2021.

A post that’s only tangentially related to cancel culture.

Generalities about an elusive and controversial phenomenon are unhelpful.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The front-runner was indeed the pick

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

His attacks are, in fact, the best case for tenure.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

The anti-vax-and-other-stuff protest is spreading to Europe.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

Musings about US politics and culture.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

Is the past still the past?

The industry is changing rapidly.

And yes, it is political (and always has been).

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

When “obviously qualified” apparently isn’t enough

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

Lawyers in North Carolina are trying to get a Congressman off the ballot.

The pandemic seems to have broken the social contract.

Once again, today marks a day where folks who would never have supported Dr. King decide they should praise him

We deserve better.

A reminder.

Some pundits have high standards.

The longtime drama critic and blogger is gone at 65.

While there is an investigation, it doesn’t appear ballots were sold for “$10 a piece”

An irresponsible Trump-era practice continues.

The beloved comedian and actor is gone at 65.