Outside the Beltway

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Hypocrisy, lies, and dangerous rhetoric from Trump and his allies on mail-in voting.

This is more about structural conditions than it is about the GOP.

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

A further attempt to explain how party is such a key variable.

What if instead of the unit rule, states doled out electoral voter based on the proportion of votes each slate of electors received?

SCOTUS and “faithless electors.”

An irrelevant judicial order is being enforced for no apparent reason.

The state is voting during the high point of a global pandemic because Republicans forced it.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

It’s time to end this thing.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

Many people have voted for candidates who aren’t running anymore.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

CBS did a lousy job.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Only the best people.

In 2016, they were backing an extreme long-shot. Now, he’s the frontrunner.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

A long overdue correction.

The obsession over a singular winner ultimately makes no sense.

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Cyber security experts are quite alarmed.

Not unexpected, but hardly a profile in courage.

The election appeal.

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

The 45th President polls worse than other prominent Republicans.

Another one bites the dust.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu easily survived a challenge for leadership of the Likud Party.

In just three years in office, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking huge steps in transforming the judiciary for decades to come.

Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a challenge for the leadership of the party he’s headed for more than a decade.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan scored a big win in Parliament, which makes a January 31st Brexit essentially inevitable.

The President of the United States has sent a bizarre, rant-filled letter to the Speaker of the House. Revealing just how unbalanced he actually is.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

The House Judiciary Committee has issued its report on the impeachment of President Trump.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.