Outside the Beltway

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.

Of course, it depends on what case one thinks needs to have been made.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Some marginal Republican formers are thinking about maybe doing somethingoranother.

Most Americans have never even heard of it.

As expected, the second impeachment trial of the 45th President will proceed.

Could the Vice President end the filibuster herself?

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

An opportunity for unity and a restoration of normal order.

Some political history,

Implications for Alabama and the GOP as well as considerations on the evolution of American politics.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Not.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Weeks of claims of rigged elections may well have cost the GOP the Senate.

It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.

Our two-party system distorts the representativeness of our politics.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

The man still can’t get out of his own way.

The problem is theoretical at best and cannot stop the Senate from acting.

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

The GOP, alas, is not going anywhere.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

Maybe his title should be “Minority Follower.”

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

President Biden told a little fib.

A legally correct but maddening ruling.

Let me point you to a reform proposal.

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

Who watches the watch, man?

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

David Brooks is the leader in the clubhouse.

History has been made in more than one way.

Hammerin’ Hank is gone.

A change to the language is being proposed as part of a sweeping immigration overhaul.

Amending the Constitutional through unconstitutional means is a very bad idea.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

President Biden masterfully used the pageantry of the day to shatter the self-asserted Trumpian monopoly on patriotism.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

143 at the 11th hour.

Large chunks of a hackish report were lifted from previous works of Commission members.

A parting shot from the Trump administration.

A curious bit of branding.

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

President-Elect Biden is planning a big first few days, Congress be damned.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,