Outside the Beltway

The dark side of federalism.

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

Not a Red Wave but a Red Shift?

The 45th President looks to be the 47th.

Remember, remember the fifth of November…

A low confidence Election Day forecast.

Floating the idea that NC should just award its EVs to Trump.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

A modest disturbance in the force.

Hitler comparisons.

They won’t tell you who’s going to be President. They’re still useful.

Some direct evidence of the effects.

The two most annoying Senators in the Democratic caucus are at it again.

And his corruption.

Does it really all come down to Pennsylvania?

Going solo has its disadvantages.

Things continue to be tight, yet Harrisward.

Things may well get ugly regardless of the outcome of November’s election.

Democrats suddenly have multiple paths to victory.

Why the rent is too damn high.

The Democrats are in a good place heading into their convention.

The reset is real.

We’re back to Square 1.

Taking a closer look at Cooper, Kelly, and Shapiro

Cruelty with compound interest.

The slide continues.

More polling that contradicts the panic.

He’s doing better in all the swing states but one than in 2020.

A morally right but politically fraught move.

It all comes down to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

The weirdness of this year’s polling gives the President’s team hope.

It’s depressingly short.

Here are some special papers.

It is a bit of a mess.

They can’t help themselves.

The 2000 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee turned maverick is gone at 82.

He may be fighting the last war.

A purge of the professional staff for, well, reasons.

The inevitable is all but official.

One term was enough.

The Top Two system has created perverse incentives.

The problem that won’t go away.

A credulous report strings together some anedotes and dubious polling.

Gregg Abbott is now defying the U.S. Supreme Court, forcing a showdown.

One man’s retirement has upended the college football landscape.

Billions for a wall plus a likely showdown with the feds.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court is gone at 93.

Take this job and shove it. I ain’t workin’ here no more.