Outside the Beltway

The Dan Sullivans saga.

Examples from TX and KY.

A little electoral studies wonkery for Sunday morning contemplation.

A desperate but plausible gambit made necessary by a flawed system.

Looking ahead, hopefully with some purpose.

Race and partisanship collide once again.

Some empirical insights into American partisan politics.

Just more evidence of how our institutions help shape our parties.

The critics are divided.

A significant slice of the electorate focuses only on the president.

A never-ending story.

Why blaming “the Democrats” or even “leadership” ignores a basic fact of American politics.

Where’s the positive example?

Lee Drutman does the math.

We need to be focused on the system, not fantasies about messages and organization.

A four-pronged test.

The reality is, I can’t say no.

What democratic backsliding looks like.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

We are observing an effort to embed democratically questionable sectarian norms into the day-to-day life of federal workplaces. 

Thinking about the evolution (or is it devolution) of the GOP since the 1990s.

Most of the world knows that PR is a better way to elect legislatures.