Outside the Beltway

Who’s to blame for the Blue Wave not materializing?

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Some surprising poll numbers.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

A quick overview and some examples to start a longer conversation.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

This is more about structural conditions than it is about the GOP.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

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

Another allegation of Biden misbehavior that is another category altogether.

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

Especially for Joe Biden.

A much-needed call for unity.

A progressive idea that could win conservative support.

Sanders supporters need to get on the bus.

Some internal cracks in terms of continuing?

Ego trumps all?

Even amidst a national crisis, he refuses to do the right thing.

The former VP is focused on beating Bernie Sanders but his team is looking ahead.

The Democratic wagons continue to circle around Biden.

He’s repelling the people he needs to mount a comeback.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Playing nice? Or setting up a fight?

The inevitable has happened.

The wagons have been circled.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

Hopefully, the final tally for a contest that shouldn’t exist.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The precise distribution of 41 measly delegates is now known. Unless there’s a recount.

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.