Outside the Beltway

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.

Twenty-Second Amendment edition.

A sad fact about the quality of American leadership and an indictment of Christians who ardently support it.

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

Escalations of threats against the press.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Restricting those who report on the Pentagon.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Data? How quaint.

As well as the politics that have followed.

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

Naturalized citizens advance and vivify the American experiment. 

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?