Outside the Beltway

Tips for how to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

The primary calendar debate shows, yet again, that parties don’t fully control candidate selection.

South Carolina and Georgia win! Iowa loses! New Hampshire whines!

Why was it released to the public?

The market for competent centrists.

The Biden administration has a point.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

So proclaims American Greatness.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

Regarding the newly independent Senator Sinema.

Her emphasis on turnout has helped other Democrats but she’s a two-time loser.

Did you even notice?

Because of course she is.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

Democratic politicians are lining up behind the octogenarian President.

One of these things is not like the other.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

Looking at past Senate elections and some more thoughts on historical patterns.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

Is the President governing like he means it?

A generic attack ad that’s cringeworthy in the specific.

It’s easy if you try.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

She is the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in British history.

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

The most consumer-visible commodity is down for the 67th consecutive day.

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

Her price to sign on to the Inflation Reduction Act was, well, odd.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

Sometimes people just change jobs.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

Another comment on the American presidency and its critics.

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

They should panic, right?

Top Four likely makes things worse.

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.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

They’re taking their eye off the ball.