Outside the Beltway

A conversation in two parts.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

Running against Trump didn’t work this year.

Voters are suppose to choose elected officials, not the other way around.

It does not create better deliberation.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Fulfilling a campaign promise and keeping the discussion alive.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

Let’s not get overly dramatic about special elections.

HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

American political parties are controlled by the primaries.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

The best two teams in college football play for it all amid some controversy.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

A myriad of possible explanations.

The numbers behind recounts.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Trump needs them both.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

A new poll shows meaningful shifts in public attitudes.

Biden is polling well, and consistently so.

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

Are Republicans eschewing absentee voting?

Contra the CDC, the AAP says getting kids to class outweighs the modest risk of their catching COVID-19.

The erstwhile Tea Party Republican is making a run for President.

An encouraging sign.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The Democratic wagons continue to circle around Biden.

He’s repelling the people he needs to mount a comeback.

The inevitable has happened.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

A quick follow-up.

The wagons have been circled.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

The final delegate count may well be skewed.