Outside the Beltway

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.

A major effort to capture the diversity of America.

Congressional Republicans are reminding voters of a dark hour in the Biden presidency.

What happens if a corrupt man who owes hundreds of millions is President?

There’s a fork in the road.

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

The experience keeps getting worse.

Some Democrats are threatening to sit November out.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

Force and order.

A special counsel has declined to prosecute the President but his rationale was painful.

Cost cutting and the decline of venerable brands.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

Turning 80 and being charged with a felony are equally disqualifying.

Republicans want him but do they really, really want him?

The 9th Circuit says it is, at least under some circumstances.

Three legendary football coaches are out in the span of a day.

Or did it?

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

Most no longer believe it’s possible to get ahead through hard work.

The NYT goes too far but not far enough.

I know it when I see it.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

More on an ongoing saga.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

The innumeracy hurts.

Paris is fighting a losing battle over the prominence of their language.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

When the obvious is controversial.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

A roundup of news and opinon.

The game is the game.

A satisfying but unlikely explanation.

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

The trend shows no sign of abating.

The MAGA wing is driving us over a cliff.

Calling out a large chunk of the GOP.

His message isn’t getting through. Is it the messenger?

One weird trick could save us from Trump.