Outside the Beltway

The country’s citizens are enduring power outages while Saudis are making deals for cutting-edge technology.

Who could have known?

Spoiler: it is about the abuse of presidential power.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

Perhaps it’s just as well.

…and I write a bit more than that.

A great actor is gone at 65.

The boxing great and grill pitchman is gone at 76.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

It made history in many ways.

The legendary actor is gone at 95.

But a centrist grand coalition will likely govern.

The retired 3-star National Guard officer is an unorthodox pick.

We deserve better than clowns giving political commentary.

Trump’s reaction to the air disaster is telling in a variety of ways.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers insurrectionists are now free.

“…but I didn’t vote for that.”

Title IX, football, and the economics of college athletics.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Another setback for Teheran.

The cruelty isn’t the point.

Breaking News

The politics of humiliation and gaslighting.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

When the abnormal ceases to be.

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

After 29 days . . . a proportionate response.

The actor known for “Good Times,” “Roots,” and “The West Wing” is gone at 84.

The Hit King is gone at 83.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

And proof of Trump’s media diet.

The legendary star of stage and screen is gone at 93.

To what degree is right wing media shaping Trump’s view of Harris?

Yet another service disruption over rights fees calls attention to the issue.

It’s not 2019 anymore.

The sitting Vice President isn’t getting blamed for the economy.

The talk show pioneer is gone at 88.

A bold reversal of fortunes. For now.

Beyond politics, there’s culture.

Five minutes is an eternity in the current information environment.

An odd juxtaposition in the major press.

The legendary comedian is gone at 94.

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

“Dr. Ruth” is gone at 96.

Democrats desperate for a different nominee are falling in line as the President refuses to go.

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

Our natural instincts in hiring are wrong.

Democratic strategists are complaining that Biden is being too honest.