Outside the Beltway

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

The 88-year-old Bishop of Rome has died.

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

When does Executive overreach become something more?

On Christian compassion (and hypocrisy) and a little bit of the Streisand Effect for good measure.

It “literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

There are a lot of people there.

Politics, rhetoric, and the question of controlled burns.

An unlikely and almost certainly inefficacious possibility.

The wrong solution for a real problem.

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

They won’t tell you who’s going to be President. They’re still useful.

Was Marbury v. Madison a mistake?

A mild-mannered JD Vance out-debated a nervous Tim Walz. It won’t matter.

The 39th President hits the century mark.

Sometimes the bird gives you the bird

Policy is only a part of it.

What Trump and many supporters get wrong about Kamala Harris

That’s not a rhetorical question.

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

The President’s support is considerably stronger among Black Democrats.

Caution about making too many assumptions.

Did Trump’s stoic reaction win him the election?

A clash of possibilities.

A second Trump presidency got much more likely last night.

Their feelings don’t care about your facts.

Could Thursday’s match-up shake up the race?

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

The war cabinet is gone. He now owns the war completely.

*Parenthetically, his opponent wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

Democratic strategists are complaining that Biden is being too honest.

Voters in Mexico, India, and South Africa are making their voices heard.

Faux amateurism is dead. What replaces it remains to be seen.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

It depends.

The President wants an alternative schedule and format.

On the complexity of political funding.

Americans look back more fondly on the Trump economy than they did in 2020.

Administrations are struggling to handle the biggest wave of student protests in generations.

He’s still a convicted felon in California, though.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

New CDC guidelines acknowledge the political realities.

Cults of personality are not the same as cults.

There’s momentum for changing the most controversial Trump era tax change.

The coiner of Godwin’s law gives his blessing.

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.