Outside the Beltway

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Some marginal Republican formers are thinking about maybe doing somethingoranother.

As expected, the second impeachment trial of the 45th President will proceed.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Weeks of claims of rigged elections may well have cost the GOP the Senate.

Our two-party system distorts the representativeness of our politics.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

The man still can’t get out of his own way.

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

The GOP, alas, is not going anywhere.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

The bane of the Trump presidency is already thwarting President Biden.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

A legally correct but maddening ruling.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

143 at the 11th hour.

Large chunks of a hackish report were lifted from previous works of Commission members.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

So says Pew.

Some of the Capitol rioters were much more dangerous than others.

Outliers are bad places to look for solid support of your argument.

The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

His column for The Hill feels more like concern trolling than anything else.

Here we go again.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

Trump brags about being the “most admired” and provides yet another example of poor understanding of data.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner are among last night’s lucky recipients.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.