Outside the Beltway

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.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

We can only hope.

Do you believe in miracles?

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

The Court is out of balance–and it is a design flaw.

The BBC checks the facts.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

Antiquated counting methods lead to misallocation of resources.

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

It would appear to be the case.

As predicted, rejections of ballots is up.

One can see the faintest hint of a backbone in the former Vice President.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

Most people liked it more than I did.