Outside the Beltway

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

Although, as usual, he maintains his odious approach to it all.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

Same endless song, different verse.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

A pleasant surprise.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

Institutional reform is necessary, but we can’t accomplish much in the face of tribalism.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

This St. Louis couple neatly summarizes what’s wrong with America.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

The inevitable has happened.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

Only the best people.

A book out today makes an odd case.

An amusing discovery.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

Donald Trump is the third President to be impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

More on Rudy’s actions in Ukraine

“Medicare For All” is the centerpiece of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for President, but she’s not talking about it as much as she used to.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu easily survived a challenge for leadership of the Likud Party.

Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a challenge for the leadership of the party he’s headed for more than a decade.