Outside the Beltway

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

Oh, FFS.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Discussing the filibuster.

Or, you know, not.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

A bipartisan compromise appears unlikely.

The saga continues.

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.