Outside the Beltway

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

A high-stakes move.

We need reform.

It’s not nearly as far-fetched as most of us would like to believe.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Must every topic be viewed through that lens?

The Electoral College is holding a nation of millions back.

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

Good news with a cautionary note.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

New documents reveal the internal deliberations of the Court.

The process is much more stage managed than advertised.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles sparks a thought.

It’s time to ban a growing and dangerous practice.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Should Secretary Pete have done more?

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

We used to (usually) know the results on Election Night because the outcomes were clearer.

Adam Laxalt’s big lead is slowly erodiing.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

Opponents lose at the district and SCOTUS level in opening salvos.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

The court, rightly, punted the issue to Congress and local leaders.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

More details from the Alaska special election.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Gallup has him at his highest point in a year.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.