Outside the Beltway

Come for the casual racism, stay for the weird aggrandizement of Dear Leader.

Our present-day politics reminds us that the “unfinished work” of democracy is never fully complete.  

The move to build Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom is moving at record speed.

The second round of No Kings rallies will take place today. Will they matter?

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

The public is much less concerned than you are.

And why I think future presidents will use the powers that Trump has demonstrated exist.

A four-pronged test.

As well as the politics that have followed.

Cancel culture on steroids.

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

On politics, guns, and people killing people

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

Nor does Benny Johnson.

“Influencer” Benny Johnson wants to bulldoze certain neighborhoods in DC.

A breaking of the social contract.

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

You can’t take the politics out of politics.

The administration’s war on higher ed has escalated.

The renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk is a prominent illustration.

A case from rural Alabama.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

He filibustered nothing for a very long time.

First thing we do, let’s intimidate all the lawyers.

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

The legendary actor is gone at 95.

Remember kids, DEI is the REAL racism

Agencies are quickly seeking to comply with the President’s order.

Today’s an appropriate on to think about the role of suffering in change

Title IX, football, and the economics of college athletics.

America’s 39th President, and greatest ex-President, is gone at the ripe old age of 100.

The dark side of federalism.

Definitely not advice from the pope

Subtle demographic changes may have created a tipping point.

Was Marbury v. Madison a mistake?

Alan Dershowitz is trying to make up his mind.

Whatever that means anymore.

Things may well get ugly regardless of the outcome of November’s election.

A surreal Democratic National Convention.

A Supreme Court Justice says our laws and regulations are out of control.

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

*Parenthetically, his opponent wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

It’s been around for a very long time.

Are we betraying the Founders?

A longstanding precedent may be in jeopardy.

A legendary actor is gone at 87.