Outside the Beltway

Thinking about what we might know on the night of the election.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

No, our topic infectious disease expert did not endorse President Trump.

Trump continues to lag.

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

I couldn’t help myself.

I’m sorry, what?

A clever political gambit that raises real issues.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

His campaign now wants more live debates.

Kamala Harris wins by not losing.

The rules for counting votes matter.

Trump’s favorite pollster has some bad news for him.

One of these really isn’t like the other.

A little comparative politics.

The lawyers can’t clean up the mess left by the President’s sudden incapacity.

Some numbers from PA and a CNN poll that gives Biden a huge lead.

Is that wise?

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

A parody of a joke.

No masks, no distancing, no caution.

A pandemic and a government populated with people in their 70s and 80s.

The inevitable has happened.

A look at several models.

They are standing by as ordered.

Joe Biden’s chances remain extraordinarily good.

Sigh.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

The problem is real.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

A case where the truth doesn’t seem to matter.

Not new.
Not surprising.
Still, pretty amazing.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

The general election campaign is about to kick off in earnest.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Statehood is on the ballot this November.