Outside the Beltway

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

An interesting podcast conversation.

A new poll show a very close race.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

Part of a disturbing trend.

Tab clearing time.

Put the frustration where it belongs.

An arrest underscores what the problem isn’t.

It’s not perfect but it beats our usual approach to picking winners and losers.

Eric Adams appears to have won a confusing race that isn’t quite over.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

One party is divided on how to govern and the other is united in not governing.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

The country is in peril.

The saga continues.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

A quick lesson about American parties.

The latest front on the war on truth.

A typical case of American blind justice.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

It’s not just Red states that put up too many barriers.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

49 percent of Americans lean Democratic, compared to 40 for Republicans. Yet a plurality identify as Independent.

And, really, all of this current wave of election legislation.

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

Quite a number of Democratic Congressmen are thinking about seeking a new job.

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

Georgia Public Broadcasting provides a useful list of provisions.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

It makes voting harder.