Outside the Beltway

They are standing by as ordered.

Joe Biden’s chances remain extraordinarily good.

Sigh.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

Yet another grim milestone.

Five weeks from Election Day.

An unconvincing attack on the Democratic position.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

Should we question the timing?

An open forum to start the work week,

Definitions are fun, right?

The problem is real.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

A case where the truth doesn’t seem to matter.

Not new.
Not surprising.
Still, pretty amazing.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

The general election campaign is about to kick off in earnest.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

Injecting data into the conversation.

Some upgrade-related wonkiness.

A Solomonic solution from the commentariat.

It’s time to accept the desecration of our political constitution.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Statehood is on the ballot this November.

More on SCOTUS expansion and other issues.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

Perhaps a bit of a hot take.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Two related discussions.

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.