Outside the Beltway

The craziest damn thing you’ve ever heard of or a secret message to the crazies?

We expect far more from the Oval Office than is reasonable.

Political theater on the southern border.

More willingness to subvert the election.

He was clearly willing to subvert the election.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Crises tend to be distracting.

An irregualr, ongoing series.

An interesting statement from his National Security Advisor.

An odd kerfuffle in local education politics.

An extraordinary example shines light on coercive factors that incentivize plea deals

The real crime is what’s legal.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

Ethics, schmethics.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

Hoisted by their own petard.

Lots of folks at the Gridiron dinner are positive.

Another glass ceiling has been shattered.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

It’s okay to ask a war criminal for some political dirt on your opponent, right?

Two related examples: are they “cancel culture” or not?

The SAT is a poor measure of college aptitude but it’s better than most others.

And other tales from the AK special election.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

This time via Senator Rick Scott.

They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue

A good jobs report.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

Grifting, all the way down.

No, presidentialism does not lock us into two parties.

Magically mobilizing nonvoters isn’t going to happen (but it sounds nice, I suppose).

Concerns have been alleviated.

The is a 7 hour gap in the phone logs at the White House from January 6, 2021.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

The President is taking a page out of Elizabeth Warren’s playbook.

The service is taking a big risk but not without much discussion.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Comparing the careers of the sitting Justices with Judge Brown’s

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Because of course it was.

The days of unanimous votes are long behind us.

Some interesting maps on the implications of DST v. standard time.