Outside the Beltway

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Trump is significantly outpeforming his 2020 results in New York and Florida. It doesn’t matter.

It could all come down to Pennsylvania.

The search giant lost a major court battle. What’s next?

A longstanding project inches forward.

Partisanship and representation in conflict.

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

A breakdown of new survey data.

A small but positive step.

The innumeracy hurts.

The Justice Department claims the search giant abused its power.

The trial judge had a conflict of interest.

A legal defense without merit.

We’re in uncharted waters.

It’s time to ban a growing and dangerous practice.

Some Democrats are angry!

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

Will anyone listen this time?

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 11 states.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

“Protect and Serve” is just a slogan, not a guarantee.

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

The 45th President is unlikely to face Federal prosecution but state and civil suits are not going his way.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.

It doesn’t matter what I believe. It only matters what I can prove.

There will be no religious exemptions. For now, at least.

The long demographic trend continues.

An unfunded mandate remains in place.

Even the smartest designers can’t anticipate all the flaws with the rules they write.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

Jimmy Carter’s Vice President and the 1984 Democratic nominee has died at 93.

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

Credulous reports notwithstanding, there’s more to the story.

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

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

We may be a little closer to ending the tyranny of the Electoral College.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.