Outside the Beltway

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

The race is returning to expectation.

The former President knowingly signed a false affidavit in support of the Big Lie.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

A dramatic if likely symbolic move.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Tudor’s down. No laughing or drinking, just a crippled party.

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

Manipulating public opinion with dubious survey research.

They could be overstating support for Democrats. Or understating it. Or be more or less right.

More details from the Alaska special election.

For the first time in a long time, Presidential approval numbers and voter preferences aren’t’ aligned.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

Truth Social is not doing all that well.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Gallup has him at his highest point in a year.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

Thoughts on the scenarios.

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

“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.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

Some 4500 tip line reports were simply turned over to the White House and not investigated further.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

Instead of a clenched fist of support, it was a big middle finger to Sweden and Finland.

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

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

You have to be suspicious of people who enjoy gangster movies a bit too much.

Approval is down (again).

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?