Outside the Beltway

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.

Here we go again . . . .

We live in a bizarre timeline.

They should panic, right?

Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 11 states.

Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.

Concerned no more, Senator Collins is now dismayed that she was misled.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

This will just reinforce minority rule in the US.

From J. S. Mill.

From a county-level race in New Mexico.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

She? Xe? Xem? Let’s call the whole thing off.

it likely won’t do much.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

The Proud Boys, Trump family, and Alex Jones all filmed documentaries of their actions leading up to January 6.

Could Alaska point the way to a solution?

Shameless (but not surprising).

The longstanding celebration that become a national holiday last year is being exploited for profit!

Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.