Outside the Beltway

With an obvious but important caveat.

Let the grievances be aired.

Hesitancy is a complex phenomenon largely immune to facts.

The effective number of parties.

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

Misc. stories for your enjoyment.

Twenty-three and counting will not run in 2022.

That didn’t take long.

This time: some multi-party examples.

The 83-year-old Justice is playing a dangerous game.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Arend Lijphart on the “Peaceful Political Revolution in America” podcast.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Opponent of vaccine mandates succumbs to Covid-19.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

Some stories of possible interest.

Some 98 percent of active service members are now vaccinated. The rest will be discharged.

The clock is ticking.

“Yellow”

It’s not compelling.

Shockingly, they’re not remotely equivalent.

A somber thought about this present moment.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

Assessing her actions in 2018 in light of 2020 and onward.

Pew’s new typology shows the diversity of both US political parties.

The rat race of becoming a physician and maintaining one’s license is more intense than popularly understood.

He is heading to CNN+

Two members of the presidential commission reach the conclusion that expansion is needed.

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

Kids are getting caught in the crossfire of the fight over COVID shots.

Look no further than the Georgia GOP primary for governor.

Politicians controlling lines control voters (instead of voters controlling politicians).

In the age of vaccines, should we stop worrying about the pandemic?

A long peek at history in the making.

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.