Outside the Beltway

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.

Fading into the background is the appropriate end to his dance with MAGA.

The fourth place candidate for second place in the Republican primaries has taken his ball and gone home to Mother.

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

Contrary to some public opinion, the economy is in decent shape.

The party’s 2012 nominee is an indicator of how fall it has fallen.

We finally have a winner. And we’re all losers.

Sigh.

Could the fourth time be the charm?

Emmer drops out.

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

The best statement on the complexity of the Israel-Hamas conflict that I have heard/read.

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

A hopeful irony.

Squirrel!

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.