Outside the Beltway

These sweet, anxious, thoughtful, and genuinely loveable students know in their bones that their future is deeply uncertain and shaped by adults who appear to have no idea what they’re doing.

Is it time for the Democrats to move to the center?

He is either too dishonest or too stupid to hold the office (or, you know, both).

The media, the academy, and the courts, are all in the crosshairs.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

We are at least on the precipice.

Small cruelties can add up to far larger ones.

On Christian compassion (and hypocrisy) and a little bit of the Streisand Effect for good measure.

Only a handful of Republican Senators have objected. Mildly.

Multiple executive orders aim at rooting out the Deep State.

The anti-vax threat from the incoming administration.

Some discussion of history, politics, and policy.

A disturbing loyalty test.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

Appointing unqualified loyalists is only the start.

There’s a glaring gap in my information consumption.

A different take on our political realignment.

The guardrails may not hold this time.

How we feeling?

It’s the opposite of politics as usual.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Was Marbury v. Madison a mistake?

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

Or, more accurately, Trump-o-Nonsense

It could all come down to Pennsylvania.

A Republican columnist is angry that Trump, not Harris, is being seen as the incumbent.

We’re back to Square 1.

Unity is good, and “coronation” is the wrong word.

It’s logical, maybe even inevitable. But is it a good idea?

The Replace Biden bandwagon continues rolling. Evidence is mounting that he needs to get on it.

All of the legal remedies are impossible.

More post-debate thoughts and a reminder about how US parties work.

A second Trump presidency got much more likely last night.

We have clocks for a reason, people.

It’s a problematic concept.

Will the first President convicted of crimes be the first convicted felon re-elected as President?

Faux amateurism is dead. What replaces it remains to be seen.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

Democrats are helping the Republican Speaker tame his nihilist wing.

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

Well, more than two…

A republic if you can keep it, indeed.

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.