Outside the Beltway

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for.

The move to build Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom is moving at record speed.

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

A potentially costly rebrand and strange bedfellows.

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

There are no satisfying answers.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

No. But it won’t matter.

Thinking about possible outcomes.

But Not Really (Wink Wink)

A 20% reduction would require massive changes in law and approach.

Whether it’s a good policy will depend almost entirely on execution.

On renaming commemorations.

The polls are showing a really weird dynamic.

Todd Lyons, acting Director of ICE provides the latest example.

Insights into Trump’s worldview.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

But a centrist grand coalition will likely govern.

But it’s a different Bragg!

In idea whose time is gone.

Who did Nazi this coming?

A bold reversal of fortunes. For now.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

The far right won the first round. The far left won the second. It’s a mess.

*Parenthetically, his opponent wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

Suddenly, old voters are aligning Democrat and young ones Republican.

A century-old tradition has gone by the wayside.

The coiner of Godwin’s law gives his blessing.

A television icon is gone at 101.

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

A high-stakes move.

What does “complete victory” look like?

A trip through comparative democratic reform.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

Protests against the governing party signal tensions in advance of fall elections.

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

A bad idea backed up by worse reasoning.

The city once known as Koenigsberg is now Krolewiec, at least in Polish government documents.

Americans are losing confidence in the bargain.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

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

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.