Outside the Beltway

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.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

A great American author is gone at 89.

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Are plurality winners less legitimate than popular vote losers?

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

A rather bizarre coda to yesterday’s big Supreme Court decision.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

We expect far more from the Oval Office than is reasonable.

Ethics, schmethics.

Grifting, all the way down.

The most likely outcome is not a happy one.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

The Court is out of balance–and it is a design flaw.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Did the President exceed his mandate? Does it matter?

And Biden approval down.

Some pundits have high standards.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

A lone judge has halted the military’s vaccine mandate.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.