Outside the Beltway

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Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

A damning number.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

“If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere.”

Even the smartest designers can’t anticipate all the flaws with the rules they write.

A bipartisan compromise appears unlikely.

A recent poll provides interesting insights.

The saga continues.

Looking to Federalist 22.

I think this underscores the problem with the 60-vote requirement.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

It’s at least as bad as you thought it was.

An over-eager supporter or something more sinister?

Even as things improve, the virus continues to take its toll.

A powerful symbol has been robbed of its significance.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

Speaker Pelosi and House Republicans are waging separate battles with science.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

For now, at least, it can shift millions of its earnings to Luxembourg.

A quick lesson about American parties.

Here we go again.

The Southeast has been hit especially hard.

New polling provides useful insights into the problem.

A shocking yet unsurprising statistic.

The latest front on the war on truth.

The latest bogey man is likely not well understood.

Republicans are more partisan—and distrustful of government—than Democrats.

The least controversial subject in school is suddenly controversial.

Mostly about how not to do it.

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Covid appears here to stay, so the goal is management.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

Increases in social benefits can increase freedom.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

Rudy may not be a very good lawyer…

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

The President used his first speech to Congress as an attempt to unite the country.

The President is about to roll out another massive spending plan.

Bill Clinton’s strategist thinks his party needs a wake-up call.

The trends over the last half century are really something.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.