Outside the Beltway

You can guess the rest.

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

Another grim milestone

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

We’re a long, long way from normal.

“Will some people be affected badly? Yes.”

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

Sigh.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

Dan Drezner makes an interesting comparison.

A disgraced governor is signing a wave of progressive legislation

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

Everything is easier with money.

What do they know, anyway?

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

Schools were going to be open today. They’re closing after parent pressure.

The grand jury was disbanded, so there was no need to continue the coercion tactic.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

There’s nothing to see here, folks.

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

A long overdue correction.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Cyber security experts are quite alarmed.

Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

The Commonwealth is about to become the 38th State to ratify the Nixon-era Amendment.

Prosecutors in two Virginia counties have announced that they will decline to prosecute low-level drug possession cases.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

A newly filed lawsuit seeks to blunt expected efforts in 2020 to “ratify” the Equal Rights Amendment even though it effectively died nearly 40 years ago.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,