Outside the Beltway

The critics are divided.

An ongoing discussion.

A significant slice of the electorate focuses only on the president.

I question the timing.

A better than expected January, but downward revisions for 2025.

Trump and the Obamas.

Combining two items that will be hallmarks of his second term.

We may be closer to regime change than any point since the 1979 Revolution.

And I read a lot of things.

The crazy world of luxury timepieces.

(More than) 12 Tomahawks a-bombing.

One of the great success stories of American governance—economic growth paired with environmental progress—has gone largely unnoticed.

Don’t tell me there’s no hope at all

Gone, gone, the damage done.

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?

Plus more white nationalism from the administration.

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.