Outside the Beltway

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

Are plurality winners less legitimate than popular vote losers?

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

The truth is pretty obvious.

With all of California’s problems solved, Gavin Newsome is doing stunts.

He failed to fulfill his oath.

Despite every precaution, the 79-year-old leader of the free world is infected.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Another example of why the filibuster needs to go.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

He met with people. And, get this, with his father!

Meeting with people who are essentially couplotters should be disqualifying.

An already awful system on steroids.

One of these things is not like the other.

A link to my piece for the Pulaski Institution.

Sometimes people just change jobs.

See is paying the price for her defense of democracy.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

As Democrats gain college-educated voters, they’re losing Hispanics and men.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

More intraparty support numbers.

Signs and portents?

The agency says a 1986 law overrides state restrictions.

With record-low poll numbers, the grass roots wants someone new on the ticket next time.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Elon backs out.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

The President has very little power here but he’s using it.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

Another comment on the American presidency and its critics.

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

The pressure and expectations of a king, but with considerably less power.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

The implications of modes of interpretation.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

It’s a global commodity.

Remarkably, he had contact information on there!

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring today and will swear his former law clerk in his replacement.

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

You’re goddamn right he did.