Outside the Beltway

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

Liberty may be natural to the individual, but political liberty remains an uncommon achievement.

Partisanship is more important than institutional autonomy.

Well, nothing of course.

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

The saga continues.

Looking to Federalist 22.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

I couldn’t help myself.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

For a change not by me.

Some key numbers.

A reference point for the future.

The Strzok hearing provides a return to this timeworn favorite.

No, the EC is not going to elect Clinton.

If one believes the electoral college is awesome, one cannot make an argument from the position of “the wisdom of the Founders” nor from a viewpoint based on original intent.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

Surely it’s time to put a woman on American currency again, but why go after Alexander Hamilton?

When I saw the entry at memeorandum proclaiming that “Wikipedia Is Now Trying To Eliminate The Federalist’s Online Entry,” I was flummoxed.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.