Outside the Beltway

They were rejected bigly.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

Another unassailable if boring cabinet choice.

But, still very bad.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

DHS cybersecurity expert who deemed election secure fired by tweet.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

More sowing of doubt about electoral integrity without evidence.

In a sane world, Joe Biden’s election win would not have come as a surprise. Alas . . . .

The President’s message is getting through.

” . . . to a second Trump Administration.” Get it?

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

A lame duck President has fired his Secretary of Defense and replaced him in probably violation of the law.

Donald Trump is in a category by himself.

Some good news for our democracy.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

Some interesting findings from the preeminent Republican polling firm.

The usual suspects are not playing along.

The votes for President and the ballot measures don’t seem to line up.

A surprisingly uneventful experience.

A brief video that puts the US in broader context.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

The man is unwell.

More on a dangerous and disturbing incident in Texas

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

Sigh.

The Chief of Staff wants to play pretend.

Lots of places in the US don’t make it easy.

Same endless song, different verse.

Not the flu.

It turns out, he wasn’t hacked. (Spoiler: They’re never hacked.)

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

I couldn’t help myself.

A clever political gambit that raises real issues.

A surreal anniversary.

One of these really isn’t like the other.

A rock and roll legend is gone too soon.

The world’s worst COVID manager is now the world’s worst COVID patient.

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

No masks, no distancing, no caution.

The inevitable has happened.

Sigh.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

A defense of the indefensible.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.