Outside the Beltway

The President minced no words.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for.

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

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

It is textbook authoritarianism.

Here we go again.

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

Half the counties in America have moved more Republican in each of the last three elections.

A case from rural Alabama.

The country is not happy with Trump. Except for Republicans.

There are a lot of people there.

Plus some thoughts on mass deportation.

A modest proposal for Civil Service reform.

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

Democrats suddenly have multiple paths to victory.

It’s depressingly short.

It’s a relative thing.

A major effort to capture the diversity of America.

Prices are way up, even though the CPI is back under control.

A T-Day Illustration.

The innumeracy hurts.

Oh, the irony.

They average more than any other occupation and considerably more than their European counterparts.

Updating the political saga of Newbern, Alabama.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

A remarkable milestone.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

An unintended consequence of the drug trade.

Young Americans are increasingly ruling out those of the other party.

A surprising ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

People are leaving our cities for the suburbs. But not on an equal basis.

Whither American civil religion?

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

A new Census definition has changed classifications slightly. It doesn’t go nearly far enough.

If it hasn’t happened already, it soon will.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

Her emphasis on turnout has helped other Democrats but she’s a two-time loser.

A surprising factoid in a bad election for the party.

The numbers aren’t real. Not yet, anyway.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

A decades-long decline has ended.

You-VAL-dee? You-VAHL-day? Oo-VAHL-deh?

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

The numbers don’t match the perception.

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

Antiquated counting methods lead to misallocation of resources.

Greatest democracy in the world, right?

Data from Texas underscore a frequent point about primaries.