Outside the Beltway

Colombian politics edition.

It won’t be easy.

Republicans are winning the gerrymandering wars thus far.

Only 32 of 435 House seats are competitive.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

Ready or not, the campaign has begun.

Johnson is acting more as an agent of the president than of the Congress.

Even if the Chinese come for the Stanley Cup.

Destroying democracy in order to save it.

The finger-pointing continues

Abigail Spanberger made history this afternoon.

Some notes on House process and how it relates to recent and ongoing political news.

The octogenarian Speaker Emerita will not seek re-election.

The former Defense Secretary and Vice President is gone at 84.

How party change actually works in the US. Plus more on messaging and organzing.

We need to be focused on the system, not fantasies about messages and organization.

The second round of No Kings rallies will take place today. Will they matter?

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

A four-pronged test.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

Can Democrats do anything?

Air Force honors for Ashli Babbitt.