Outside the Beltway

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

The race is returning to expectation.

The class photo has changed.

Voting isn’t just about candidates.

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

He’s proposed a bill with no chance of passage seemingly timed to hurt his own party in the midterms.

Some stories and passing comments.

They could be overstating support for Democrats. Or understating it. Or be more or less right.

Roberts may not like it, but SCOTUS is political and does have a legitimacy problem.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

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

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

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

Approval is down (again).

States emboldened by Dobbs are testing just how far the Supreme Court will let them go.

With all of California’s problems solved, Gavin Newsome is doing stunts.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Another example of why the filibuster needs to go.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

As Democrats gain college-educated voters, they’re losing Hispanics and men.

The agency says a 1986 law overrides state restrictions.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.

The President has very little power here but he’s using it.

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

The pressure and expectations of a king, but with considerably less power.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

It’s been more of a reading than writing morning.

Here we go again . . . .

We live in a bizarre timeline.

For your consideration.

Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 11 states.

So, what now?

A comparison of the two texts.

Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban may or may not be back in effect.

Concerned no more, Senator Collins is now dismayed that she was misled.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

This will just reinforce minority rule in the US.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

A decades-long decline has ended.

From the Cliché File.