Outside the Beltway

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.

The President is not like other people.

A little comparative politics.

A rock and roll legend is gone too soon.

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.

Because of course they are.

Is that wise?

The world’s worst COVID manager is now the world’s worst COVID patient.

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

A parody of a joke.

A truly chaotic combination.

No masks, no distancing, no caution.

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

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

The inevitable has happened.

A look at several models.

Welcome to Thursday.

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.

Yet another grim milestone.

Five weeks from Election Day.

An unconvincing attack on the Democratic position.

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

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

Should we question the timing?

An open forum to start the work week,

Definitions are fun, right?

The problem is real.

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

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.