Outside the Beltway

To the Trump administation this a feature, not a bug.

One of the OG political bloggers is gone.

Willingness to lie is now a requirement for senior intelligence and law enforcement posts.

The courts will decide whether we have a President or a King.

Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Barrett sided with the Court’s liberals.

A dangerous choice that the Senate must reject.

Stop me if you have heard this before, but he is unqualified for the job.

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

And the grotesqueness of the Trumpian response.

A chilling feature from the Wall Street Journal.

Why public attitudes are lagging real world performane.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

Ali Qadhi, who led the terrorist attack on Israel last week, has been killed by the IDF. So have fleeing civilians.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Another entry into the ongoing performative politics of Ron DeSantis.

A legal defense without merit.

The process is much more stage managed than advertised.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

A rather bizarre coda to yesterday’s big Supreme Court decision.

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

A legendary journalist is gone.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

Yet another thing driving Americans apart.

The country is in peril.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

49 percent of Americans lean Democratic, compared to 40 for Republicans. Yet a plurality identify as Independent.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

The loaners, the dreamers, and schemes.

Some reflections

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.