Outside the Beltway

The people who safeguard our nuclear weapons and put out forest fires have been fired.

My turn.

A low confidence Election Day forecast.

A different take on our political realignment.

Subtle demographic changes may have created a tipping point.

Trump is significantly outpeforming his 2020 results in New York and Florida. It doesn’t matter.

The actor known for “Good Times,” “Roots,” and “The West Wing” is gone at 84.

A chilling feature from the Wall Street Journal.

That’s not a rhetorical question.

Most departments have shockingly little screening of their officers.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

Reggie Jackson and playing baseball in the Deep South.

The legendary basketball player and executive is gone at 86.

The inclusion of Negro League statistics has rewritten the game’s history.

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

The Top Two system has created perverse incentives.

Federal and state marijuana policies are wildly out of sync.

A credulous report strings together some anedotes and dubious polling.

Also: the media landscape is currently evolving.

Most no longer believe it’s possible to get ahead through hard work.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

Much ado about nothing?

The President and his predecessor are heading to Detroit.

The push to return to the office comes with domestic consequences.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

Today’s youth cohort might actually vote.

The evidence is pretty thin.

A sensible compromise on a controversial issue.

The Greatest of All Time is hanging up his cleats a year too late.

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

The Needle is Broken

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

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

And a reminder about Bannon’s wall grift.

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

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

The man most famous for his turn on “Leave it to Beaver” has passed from liver cancer aged 77.

For your consideration.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

“Protect and Serve” is just a slogan, not a guarantee.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

The infamous duo will have to do what they were already supposed to do for a year.