Outside the Beltway

Harlan Ellison, part 1.

Only 32 of 435 House seats are competitive.

Partisan gerrymandering just got a bit easier.

It is all around us.

A gunman got off shots at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

His clean-cut image was belied by years of rumors.

She’s transitioning to an as-yet unspecified role the private sector.

Ready or not, the campaign has begun.

Dangerous in more ways than one.

The Art of the Deal in action.

The martial artist and action movie star is gone at 86.

The iconic labor leader had a dark secret.

An ominous sign for the majority party.

Destroying democracy in order to save it.

The Sanford and Son actor is gone at 79.

And maybe out entirely.

Abigail Spanberger made history this afternoon.

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

Gone, gone, the damage done.

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?

The most bizarre report I’ve seen in some time.

The President minced no words.

Why I am a bit reticent about being sympathetic.

After months of demanding Republicans resist, he says “We have nothing to hide.”

Newly-Sworn-in-Rep. Grijalva provides the final signature.

Where’s the positive example?

The octogenarian Speaker Emerita will not seek re-election.

Although it is still on life support.

And what it means for 2024 and beyond.

The standoff is in its 35th day.

Lack of understanding and poor institutional design=bad political outcomes.

Some limits on Democratic pushback

A dramatic escalation of the standoff.

Trump exploits our mistaken beliefs about crime to consolidate his power.

She was not amused by the administration’s workaround.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

Can Democrats do anything?

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore?

One of the big ones has given up.

Most of the world knows that PR is a better way to elect legislatures.

Times have changed!

It’s down, but relatively steady.

The mathematician best known for his satirical songs is gone at 97.

Here we go again.

The incentives for creating quality content are diminishing by the day.