Outside the Beltway

Disentangling the two is challenging, if not impossible.

The state of being too big to care.

We have a problem, but we aren’t even trying to address it.

A podcast recommendation.

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

Will POTUS listen?

Enough is never enough.

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

Trump’s style may obscure a lack of substance.

The fixes people want won’t help and those that will help, people don’t want.

More thoughts on Klein’s column.

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

There are real life consequences.

How party change actually works in the US. Plus more on messaging and organzing.

Grumpy old man grumps about democracy.

We need to be focused on the system, not fantasies about messages and organization.

Lack of understanding and poor institutional design=bad political outcomes.

As well as the politics that have followed.

When empathy goes too far.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

Can Democrats do anything?

And other tales of subverting knowledge and expertise on the altar of a preferred mythic narrative.