Outside the Beltway

Only 32 of 435 House seats are competitive.

Race and partisanship collide once again.

Partisan gerrymandering just got a bit easier.

Free speech is not always met with more speech.

A way out of the mess.

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

Returning to a debate from the comment section.

The two oldest members of the Supreme Court are taking a big gamble.

Nineteen minutes. Zero answers.

Trump issues an EO; now we wait on the legal challenges.

Sounding a barbaric yawp over the streets of the world.

How it started and how it’s going.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

An update from the Commander-in-Chief.

An ominous sign for the majority party.

Usually president care what the public thinks, especially at times of major military action. Not this time.

What it is and isn’t. Some polisci basics.

A potential Executive Order on elections.

USA! USA! USA!

The critics are divided.

His growing focus on the mid-terms is concerning.

Even if the Chinese come for the Stanley Cup.

The Epstein fallout highlights differences in the US and UK systems.

Another data point that shows Trump’s unpopularity.

Destroying democracy in order to save it.

A never-ending story.

What could possibly go wrong?

Flooding the zone saps his opponent’s attention, but also his White House’s.

The big lie of 2020 continues.

So says the Cook Political Report

The question mark is for the peak, not for the cowardice.

Abigail Spanberger made history this afternoon.

Has the tide turned?

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

Gone, gone, the damage done.

Debates about whether Trump is strong or weak often ignore the fundamental fact that he has power.

Permanent damage appears to be coming (oh, and it enhances the authoritarian power of the presidency as well).

I find it hard to take.

(While murdering people without due process because of [checks notes] drugs.)

Mamdani visits the WH; MTG resigns.

Michelle Obama thinks so.

Newly-Sworn-in-Rep. Grijalva provides the final signature.

Some questions to consider as you evaluate congressional leadership.

Why blaming “the Democrats” or even “leadership” ignores a basic fact of American politics.