Outside the Beltway

We’re falling further behind for many reasons.

Safety, trade-offs, and risk assessment.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

Here we go again.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

Being against something just isn’t enough.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

As tired as we may be of him, his nominating electorate appears ready for another round.

A growing trend has healthcare professionals and communities concerned.

A seemingly benign but controversial gesture.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

A tough map for the Democrats.

The market for competent centrists.

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

A big problem with a simple solution.

A new Census definition has changed classifications slightly. It doesn’t go nearly far enough.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

We charge patients way more than other counties.

They’re all made out of ticky tacky. And they all look just the same

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

Our English-speaking brethren have much less tolerance for massacres than we do.

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

Localities are consolidating local elections to coincide with national ones. Some don’t like that.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

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

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

There was some quiet meddling going on.

This one at the University of Virginia.

With a win in Nevada, the party will retain at least 50 seats.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

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

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Possibly the last child of an American enslaved person has died.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

The largest adjustment since the tax code was indexed in 1985.

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

It goes deeper than base names.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.