Outside the Beltway

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

Nonhierarchical parties strike again.

A mass shooting in Atlanta draws attention to a problem of which I was only tangentially aware.

The case of Katie Porter’s committee assignments.

An explanation to a question you likely weren’t asking.

The job losses and hit to the service sector is well documented. But trade has radically shifted, too.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

The fear of missing out is strong.

What was mere signaling under a Republican Senate and President could now become law.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

143 at the 11th hour.

News from California.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner are among last night’s lucky recipients.

The science and ethics are not the hardest part of determining who should go first.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

An American hero is gone.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

The 87-year-old former San Francisco mayor isn’t woke enough.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

The transition is on pace despite President Trump’s best efforts.

Revisiting predictions about what would happen if what has happened happened.

A mind-boggling statistic.

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

Injecting data into the conversation.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

The Electoral College is once again having the opposite effect of what its defenders claim.

Sorry, UC Irvine, as long as Navarro is on the faculty, no donations from this graduate.

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

My latest for Defense One.

Pondering lack of US interest in our friends to the south.