Outside the Beltway

Here we go again.

Biden did what he needed to do.

The state of the union is apparently fiery.

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

California’s next Senator had his night spoiled.

It’s easy if you try.

If so, he’ll almost surely win bigly.

A scholarly treatise argues it is not.

The Supreme Court has effectively derailed the main criminal case against the likely Republican nominee.

Reading the tea leaves in Michigan.

The Top Two system has created perverse incentives.

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

Shockingly, both “incumbents” are going to win their party’s 2024 nominations.

Apparently, Making Germany Great Again is controversial.

Republicans want him but do they really, really want him?

Some things shouldn’t be joked about (and they often aren’t jokes anyway).

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

Normalizing Trump via poor analysis.

Another state has declared him an insurrectionist.

Ignorance, it turns out, isn’t bliss.

He appointed a third of the Justices but has the worst record before them in modern history.

A stroll through the archives.

The coiner of Godwin’s law gives his blessing.

The Republican frontrunner continues to use Hitler’s language, praise dictators, and lionize traitors.

The highest court has agreed to expedite a ruling on a novel question.

The system isn’t very good.

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

A T-Day Illustration.

The NYT goes too far but not far enough.

A David Brooks column inspires some thoughts.

I know it when I see it.

More on an ongoing saga.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

When the intellectually correct answer isn’t politically possible.

The party’s 2012 nominee is an indicator of how fall it has fallen.

Because I think it is really important.

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

Bidenomics is dragging Biden’s approval.

A satisfying but unlikely explanation.

We need reform.

An increasingly undemocratic regional power is a necessary but unreliable partner.

Much ado about nothing?

Calling out a large chunk of the GOP.

His message isn’t getting through. Is it the messenger?

Its economic bubble has burst, which may make them more dangerous.