Outside the Beltway

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.

Officers are under enormous pressure–including from the Federal government–to write tickets.

A paradox that’s not hard to explain.

Women are increasingly dominating American higher education.

Rural-urban is now a bigger divide than North-South.

It hasn’t changed in over 100 years (but the population sure has).

The long demographic trend continues.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

Almost everyone in households making over $75,000 are protected from COVID.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.