Outside the Beltway

Gallup has him at his highest point in a year.

“Sky Drama”

The bloody conflict could go on for months, if not years.

A proposed $10,000 writeup would cost more than $300,000,000,000.

Most Americans are choosing to live a normal life in abnormal times.

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

One of the OG blog pundits has reached a big milestone.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

From a WaPo piece on the FSB and Ukraine.

Thoughts on the scenarios.

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

The most consumer-visible commodity is down for the 67th consecutive day.

Are 20 arrests worth a $1.2 million dollar investment?

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

“Delicate”

Kushner book review edition.

When you tax sin, you need more of it.

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

Some quick hits.

They’re spending millions on issue ads in the wake of Dobbs.

Psst. Don’t tell anyone.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

His final resting place pays tribute to his love of OTB and the Yankees.

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”