Outside the Beltway

Normalizing Trump via poor analysis.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

Should the government need a warrant to get information it can buy on the open market?

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

What should be the bar? Can it ever be reached?

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

Our system lacks accountability.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

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

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

A quick overview and some examples to start a longer conversation.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

Let’s be clear-eyed about this.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

Rich Lowry puts preferred outcomes over constitutional process.