Outside the Beltway

The implications of modes of interpretation.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.

This will just reinforce minority rule in the US.

From a county-level race in New Mexico.

Top Four likely makes things worse.

Could Alaska point the way to a solution?

Shameless (but not surprising).

Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

It’s not all about Trump.

It was yuuuge! And nobody saw it!

Are you going to believe this index or your own lyin’ eyes?

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

The NYT and CA41 and yet another example of telling the wrong story.

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

An ongoing series of observations.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

Hopefully answering a reader question (but probably just making it all worse).

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

The role of American political institutions.

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

Added historical context to ongoing conversations about American democracy.

A follow on from yesterday.

Has the Internet made us more selfish?

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

He was clearly willing to subvert the election.

A brief obeservation.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

This time via Senator Rick Scott.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot

The Court is out of balance–and it is a design flaw.

As predicted, rejections of ballots is up.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Most people liked it more than I did.

The military threat is smaller, but the political one is bigger.