Outside the Beltway

The disgraced loser remains as popular as ever with his base.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

Some reflections

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

Historical, but not enough.

And illustrations of the fact that this isn’t a regular trial.

Its founders are laughing all the way to the bank.

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.

A rather odd non-ruling during the non-session from America’s highest court.

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?

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

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.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

The veteran journalist was ousted after a staff backlash over the use of racial slurs.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

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

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.