Outside the Beltway

It beats the alternative but it ain’t for sissies.

Mamdani visits the WH; MTG resigns.

Surging resources to immigration enforcement comes with tradeoffs.

And what it means for 2024 and beyond.

A chip maker is the most valuable company on the planet.

Political scientists, however, are skeptical.

Lack of understanding and poor institutional design=bad political outcomes.

Millions turned out in support of basic ideals.

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

The public is much less concerned than you are.

The health agency has been gutted under RFK Jr.’s reign.

Trump exploits our mistaken beliefs about crime to consolidate his power.

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

Here we go again.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

Reality is easier to ignore if you just pretend it isn’t there.

Data? How quaint.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

The slur “Trump Derangement Syndrome” unintentionally captures something real about our world.

Allegations that DOGE put Social Security info on an unsecured server.

A list of words and who actually uses them!

Are Democrats triggering voters by pushing the Overton Window on language, thereby subverting norms and creating barriers to participation?

Thoughts on the election and on the electoral rules used.

The media, the academy, and the courts, are all in the crosshairs.

They have a preference but may not vote.

Good news is seldom news.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

Take this job and shove it. I ain’t workin’ here no more.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

You can’t fire me, I quit!

Localities are consolidating local elections to coincide with national ones. Some don’t like that.

Some of our citizens are at greater risk under relaxed mask guidelines.

The Commonwealth’s undemocratic political system is, shockingly, unrepresentative of the will of its people.

Apple is resisting a Federal Court order that it assist the F.B.I. in decryption of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.