Outside the Beltway

The administration’s war on higher ed has escalated.

Terrorism in Colorado. Continued awful violence in Gaza.

This time: Chinese students.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

First thing we do, let’s intimidate all the lawyers.

A glaring example of trying to terrorize those the administration doesn’t like.

Of leopards and faces.

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

Hitler comparisons.

And more silence from our MAGA aligned commenters

Trumps undercuts current messaging & brings up past military service controversies

Stoking anti-Semitism for political gain

The anti-DEI party is suddenly really concerned about identity

Administrations are struggling to handle the biggest wave of student protests in generations.

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

Leading candidate for Republican nomination deploys eliminationist rhetoric in Veteran’s Day speech.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Eight state have withdrawn from a system to prevent illegal voting because of ignorance and agitation.

The worst of the worst Capitol Riot players have been brought to justice.

Do his achievements and good works outweigh his virulent antisemitism?

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Since when is it a crime to say stupid things on “The View”?

Elections have consequences: Old Dominion Edition

“The Closer” delivers more of what people love and hate about the GOAT.

A reckless campaign of violence has now targeted American journalists.

A mass shooting in Atlanta draws attention to a problem of which I was only tangentially aware.

Debunking urban legends and Internet rumors is harder than it used to be.

Not.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apologized for blocking constituents on Twitter as part of a legal settlement.

Barry Goldwater saw what the so-called “religious right” would become decades ago.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

The so-called “rebel alliance’ in the House of Commons continues to stack up wins against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but Johnson could still win in the end.

And what a week it has been.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

President Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the firestorm that American politics.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.