Outside the Beltway

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

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

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

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

No one should draw conclusions about RCV from the AK special election.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

A link to my piece for the Pulaski Institution.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

More stories than there is time to blog.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

The numbers don’t match the perception.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

The network’s longtime weekend anchor couldn’t take it anymore.

Because of course it was.

We can only hope.

The Commonwealth’s undemocratic political system is, shockingly, unrepresentative of the will of its people.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

Trump’s pardon offer is just another way to propagate the big lies about the election and 1/6.

A too-small step in the right direction.

I’m shocked, shocked, to find that this is happening here.

People, details do in fact matter!

Lawyers in North Carolina are trying to get a Congressman off the ballot.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

The singer and actor, born Marvin Lee Aday, is gone at 74.

Not Mayberry. Not even close.

A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.

While there is an investigation, it doesn’t appear ballots were sold for “$10 a piece”

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

A necessary but likely irrelevant gesture.

The biggest news doesn’t always get the most attention.

The Rogue Warrior is gone at 81.

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

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

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

An epic but improbable win.

Yet again, Mike Lindell show what a fraud he is.

Kimberly Webb Joyner, my first wife and the mother of my children, has been gone a decade.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.