Outside the Beltway

Another piece of an appalling cabinet is now in place.

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.

Partisanship weakens the immune system and can lead to spread of bad ideas.

Just lie about it.

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

The President-Elect is testing the guardrails early.

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

Trump’s voter fraud allegations have melted away.

How that awful man won again.

The guardrails may not hold this time.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

Donald Trump fared considerably worse against a cogent opponent.

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

What? He’s undisciplined?

Five minutes is an eternity in the current information environment.

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

It’s been around for a very long time.

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

Some interesting tidbits.

No, I don’t feel terrible now.

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

The politics of chaos.

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and MAGA.

Lie down with dogs you get up with fleas edition.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Survey research is not without flaws. But we dismiss it at our peril.

This makes four.

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

How far should the government be able to go?

The parties do not control their labels.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

In a world of fixed positions, is debating in good faith really worth it?

Separating rhetoric from action.

Eight state have withdrawn from a system to prevent illegal voting because of ignorance and agitation.

Applying nuanced judgement under the highest scrutiny is what we expect, but don’t often get.

A columnist argues his failed launch was emblematic of a larger problem.

The stiffest punishment yet for a January 6 seditionist.

Seems about right.

Don’t get your hopes up.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

Why was it released to the public?

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.