Outside the Beltway

We can all agree that it’s important but not what it is.

The Watergate conspirator, author, and talk show host was 90.

The media became the story but the President was the news.

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

The lack of common understandings and shared assumptions makes political conversations challenging.

Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

Could the Vice President end the filibuster herself?

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

Trump is careless with his words and extremists respond.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

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

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

His campaign now wants more live debates.

Kamala Harris wins by not losing.

The lawyers can’t clean up the mess left by the President’s sudden incapacity.

Some numbers from PA and a CNN poll that gives Biden a huge lead.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

The general election campaign is about to kick off in earnest.

Two related discussions.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

An appeal to some pretty basic virtues.

My latest for Defense One.

I’ve been thinking it wrong for years.

An ambitious veepable. What a concept!

Black football players at Iowa complain they were treated differently—and also the same.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Fascism is less about real politics, which is what makes it terrifying.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

A too-long discourse on how courts should function.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

He revolutionized how we think of male homosexuality.

Even amidst a national crisis, he refuses to do the right thing.

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

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

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.

Many people have voted for candidates who aren’t running anymore.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.