Outside the Beltway

A strange controversy in higher ed.

Partisan gerrymandering just got a bit easier.

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

These sweet, anxious, thoughtful, and genuinely loveable students know in their bones that their future is deeply uncertain and shaped by adults who appear to have no idea what they’re doing.

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming for white collar jobs.

The data are clear (and the predictions were correct).

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics is gone at 90.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

A Representative’s slip of the tongue and the ensuing debate.

A surprising ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

A significant cut to staff and programming to stay afloat.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

A novel concept. Will it catch on?

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Much ado about a perfectly normal phenomenon.

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.