Outside the Beltway

Looking to Federalist 22.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Mostly about how not to do it.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

Let’s call it what it is.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

Fulfilling a campaign promise and keeping the discussion alive.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.

And, really, all of this current wave of election legislation.

A subtle but odd change in house style for the Paper of Record

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

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

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

It makes voting harder.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!

Empowering authoritarians.

Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).

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

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.

Yet another reminder about pathologies of US democracy.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

The reflections on the departed right-wing talk host continue.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Some reflections

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

Some marginal Republican formers are thinking about maybe doing somethingoranother.

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

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

Let me point you to a reform proposal.

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.