Outside the Beltway

Perhaps it’s just as well.

What could possibly go wrong?

A response to an argument based on feels not facts

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and both Roosevelts pushed the envelope, too!

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

Trumps undercuts current messaging & brings up past military service controversies

A third (and hopefully final) post on the matter.

Some additional (and longwinded) perspective.

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.

Police have been brought at universities across the country.

A legendary soldier is gone at 97.

But humans made all the decisions that matter.

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

A misleading survey result.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

I know it when I see it.

A poll on Israeli support.

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

When the obvious is controversial.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

Generations of young Americans weren’t alive or have no real memory of the event.

There has been a steady decline the last five years.

Today’s youth cohort might actually vote.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

The problem is not the indictment; it is the indicted.

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

The “We Were Soldiers Once” author and his wife have been honored.

An old soldier has faded away.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

The silliness of “generations.”

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

A generic attack ad that’s cringeworthy in the specific.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

The US armed forces are looking for a few more good men and women.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

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

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

Has a franchise that’s always been political gone too far?

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

The proxy war is working.