Outside the Beltway

People are leaving our cities for the suburbs. But not on an equal basis.

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

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

A silly workaround to an infuriating problem that won’t go away.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

A proposed rule would increase the freedom of a huge segment of the labor force.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

The idiocy of Iowa and New Hampshire having outsized influence on who is elected President may be ending.

Even the 2020 election deniers are conceding close elections in the midterms.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

The Fed is expected to stall the economy to fight inflation.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

There’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

Supply chain disruptions are contributing to crisis for 300 million people.

The bubble may have burst.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

A fascinating report from the WSJ.

Strapped for cash? Environmentally conscious?

Intellectuals are fleeing as Soviet-style censorship returns.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

Evidence of mass atrocities across Ukraine continues to mount.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

Bargaining continues amidst poisoning and mass killing.

The service is taking a big risk but not without much discussion.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.