Outside the Beltway

It’s early, but here are some key numbers as they exist now.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

Some light fundraising whilst waiting for mum to die.

You have to be suspicious of people who enjoy gangster movies a bit too much.

Approval is down (again).

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

“In the Tree”

The man most famous for his turn on “Leave it to Beaver” has passed from liver cancer aged 77.

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

The economic downturn is hitting groups in different ways.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

Are plurality winners less legitimate than popular vote losers?

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

The truth is pretty obvious.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

States emboldened by Dobbs are testing just how far the Supreme Court will let them go.

With all of California’s problems solved, Gavin Newsome is doing stunts.

Making ourselves cooler is making the earth warmer.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

He failed to fulfill his oath.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

“Someone’s Past”

Despite every precaution, the 79-year-old leader of the free world is infected.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Another example of why the filibuster needs to go.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

He met with people. And, get this, with his father!