Outside the Beltway

A bad night for Trump.

And what it means for 2024 and beyond.

It turns out that mandatory spending is, well, mandatory.

A million dollars a day.

Upcoming milestones that could force a deal.

The downside of our increasing connectivity.

The second round of No Kings rallies will take place today. Will they matter?

“There’s a lot of commander coming.”

A long and unusual speech has implications for civil-military relations.

A reaffirmation rather than a revelation.

A few more details have emerged.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

Every general and admiral in a command billet has been called for a last-minute gathering about some unspecified topic.

Naturalized citizens advance and vivify the American experiment. 

Cancel culture on steroids.

Politicizing the military is legal, but dangerous.

Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore?

It is textbook authoritarianism.

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

Democrats are mostly condemning it and Republicans are divided.

The Commonwealth’s off-off year contests will be seen as a referendum on Trump.

But Not Really (Wink Wink)