Outside the Beltway

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

Sigh.

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Approval is down (again).

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Another example of why the filibuster needs to go.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

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

He met with people. And, get this, with his father!

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

The President has very little power here but he’s using it.

He plans to hang on as PM through the fall but likely won’t be able to.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Remarkably, he had contact information on there!

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

They should panic, right?

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Phoenix, DeVry, and other scam colleges have reached a settlement.

Chris Stirewalt takes a victory lap.

Much ado about a perfectly normal phenomenon.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

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

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

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

A recurring genre about presidents.

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

Two incumbents roared to victory despite his opposition.

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

We’re mostly back to “normal” while yet another new strain is surging.