Outside the Beltway

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

Two incumbents roared to victory despite his opposition.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?

She advocated that AZ overturn its election.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

A long-overdue milestone has been reached.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

An ongoing series of observations.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Tragedy has played out so often that it has become a statistic.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

Assumptions of racial animus are overshadowing a story that’s outrageous enough on its own.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

Not so conservative.

The Ohio GOP Senate contest.

In other news, there’s gambling going on at Casablanca.

Nobody is keeping the gate.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

The 45th President was a psychopath.

The role of American political institutions.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

A splendid idea but why stop there?

A illustration from the Senate race in Georgia.

Vice President Harris gets better care than the average American. Cue the outrage!

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Why would a group that claims it has evidence of ballot harvesting refuse to turn it over?

Added historical context to ongoing conversations about American democracy.

What are the limits of representation?

A follow on from yesterday.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

Anyone familiar with Betteridge’s law of headlines knows where this is going.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

Did we not already know this?

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.