Outside the Beltway

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

A shameful farce.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

A never-ending saga of politicians choosing their voters.

The highest court has agreed to expedite a ruling on a novel question.

The system isn’t very good.

The theory of the Internet clashes with its reality.

McHenry has no more terms to give to his country.

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.

He faces up to 17 years in prison.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around any more.

400-plus general and flag officer promotions went through almost instantaneously.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The headline wrote itself.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

The unworkable Republican caucus is about to get less workable.

Prices are way up, even though the CPI is back under control.

A bureaucratic nightmare.

Take this job and shove it. I ain’t workin’ here no more.

Another sad data point about current politics.

More importantly, comments on challenges to incumbent presidents.

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

America’s weird system for choosing Presidents keeps getting weirder.

Turns out there is an easy way out.

Continued disjunctures between perceptions and the indicators.

The President has tepid support in the 18-29 demographic.

The NYT goes too far but not far enough.

A David Brooks column inspires some thoughts.

It’s going to be up to the American people to keep Trump out of the White House.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

I know it when I see it.

A fascinating conversation between two queer journalists.

Can’t a pundit fantasize about an alternative to the two major parties?

…and the perceptions thereof.

We shouldn’t be surprised that Americans have noticed their grocery bill.

More on an ongoing saga.

A likely lost seat for Democrats in 2024.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

House Republicans still can’t get out of their own way.

Let the punditry begin.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Survey research is not without flaws. But we dismiss it at our peril.

Looking ahead to November 5, 2024

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

Why is the Senate pretending to do that which it can’t possibly do?

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Trump is making verbal gaffes while making fun of Biden’s verbal gaffes.