Outside the Beltway

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

The lines aren’t everything, but they need more attention than they get.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

One of the OG blog pundits has reached a big milestone.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

From the Cliché File.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

Can the Misery Index be far behind?

Is the administration governing like it’s 2009?

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

Politics is not a game.

The difference is politics, not reason.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

An interesting podcast conversation.

Our love for cheap goods and services requires lots of people willing to work for very little.

A podcast recommendation.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

Are we thinking about job training all wrong?

The Ezra Klein show on the “infrastructure” bill.

An interesting but uneven debate.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

A trend continues.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

Chris Cillizza thinks “Rush Limbaugh totally gets Donald Trump.” I disagree.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

The fact that Republicans lack anything approaching a coherent immigration plan makes it hard to take their criticism of the President seriously.

Trending on Twitter this morning is a collection of infographics compiled by Ezra Klein under the heading “22 maps and charts that will surprise you.”

The Ezra Klein-less Wonkblog makes us feel good about our drinking habits.

The “open and free” Internet is an ideal type, not a myth.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Our tax system is so complicated that whether we’re filing our returns correctly is a known unknown.

Ezra Klein has put out a teaser of the project that he left WaPo to pursue.

On the day that news broke that Ezra Klein and Wonkblog are leaving the Washington Post, the Volokh Conspiracy made its debut there.

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

Blogging has changed much over the last decade, and not all for the good.

Once again, the Administration has unilaterally changed the Affordable Care Act.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.