Outside the Beltway

He may be fighting the last war.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

A purge of the professional staff for, well, reasons.

The food is too damn high!

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

We’re entitled to our own facts.

Two candidates enter. One candidate leaves.

The race to be the top loser in the GOP primary process just lost a competitor.

No big surprises from the dumbest recurring contest in American politics.

Republicans want him but do they really, really want him?

The anti-Trump attack dog is out of the race.

The greatest coach in college football history is hanging it up.

The inevitable threats to remove Biden from the ballot emerge.

Really not much to add on this one

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

Trump betrayed his oath. That should disqualify him from office. That’s the whole point of section 3 of the 14th.

A poor answer to a softball question has created unnecessary controversy.

A breakdown of new survey data.

Even when it is focused on.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

A never-ending saga of politicians choosing their voters.

The system isn’t very good.

A television icon is gone at 101.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

The innumeracy hurts.

We can all agree that Trump and Biden are over the line. But where is it?

Trump is making verbal gaffes while making fun of Biden’s verbal gaffes.

Where religious zealotry can lead. (So, yes, a digression into American politics).

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.

In a bathtub?

We need to do better.

Jim Jordan is trying to bully his way into office. It almost certainly won’t work.

One of the worst movies in memory may be getting a sequel.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

What’s behind the sure-to-fail bid to oust his own party’s Speaker?

The chickens are slowly coming home to roost.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

A tale of slow-moving bureaucracy.

A Republican lawmaker pleads guilty.

So a court has ordered.