Outside the Beltway

Discussing the filibuster.

Or, you know, not.

You know, some light weekend thoughts.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

A damning number.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

A bipartisan compromise appears unlikely.

The saga continues.

Looking to Federalist 22.

I think this underscores the problem with the 60-vote requirement.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

A quick lesson about American parties.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Mostly about how not to do it.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Increases in social benefits can increase freedom.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

Let’s call it what it is.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

With an appearance by Caitlyn Jenner’s choice of party.

A recent report shows 78 of 435 seats in the US House are truly competitive.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

Fulfilling a campaign promise and keeping the discussion alive.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.

And, really, all of this current wave of election legislation.

A subtle but odd change in house style for the Paper of Record

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

The Watergate conspirator, author, and talk show host was 90.

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

Georgia Public Broadcasting provides a useful list of provisions.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

It makes voting harder.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.