Outside the Beltway

Who needs fancy book learnin’ if you already have all the answers?

Come for the shots fired at the cabinet, stay for the weird digression.

More on the clear white supremacist ideology oozing from the Trump administration.

Thinking about the intellectual foundations of contemporary immigration policy.

Our present-day politics reminds us that the “unfinished work” of democracy is never fully complete.  

You know, as is normal in democratic politics…

Some questions to consider as you evaluate congressional leadership.

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

Where’s the positive example?

Not even a misdemeanor.

A bad night for Trump.

Although it is still on life support.

Tucker, Fuentes, and Heritage. Oh My!

Lee Drutman does the math.

The Trumpian Twilight Zone.

Political scientists, however, are skeptical.

How party change actually works in the US. Plus more on messaging and organzing.

Grumpy old man grumps about democracy.

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

One-third of a day.

Lack of understanding and poor institutional design=bad political outcomes.

He becomes the first French ex-head of state to be jailed since Marshal Pétain.

Power is apparently very important.

A Punisheresque skull.

I mean, who would even think such a thing?

I guess if we fail to vaporize you, you get treated like a criminial.

Millions turned out in support of basic ideals.

Thoughts and photos from downtown Montgomery, AL.

Senator Mike Lee helps us understand what he means by “a republic, not a democracy.”

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

Some limits on Democratic pushback

This time: North Carolina

Why is reporting on objective reality so hard?

By law enforcement.

And why I think future presidents will use the powers that Trump has demonstrated exist.

A four-pronged test.

The Feds raid an apartment building in Chicago.

The reality is, I can’t say no.

Stephen Miller’s words at the Kirk memorial.

Colombia’s President said the wrong thing and had his visa revoked.

Blowing up boats because they might have drugs on them is not justifiable, legally or morally.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

What democratic backsliding looks like.