Outside the Beltway

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

Well, more than two…

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

It’s been around for a very long time.

Are we betraying the Founders?

MAGA Republicans have owned themselves whilst trying to own the libs.

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

A set of bills would fund Ukraine, Israel, and other bipartisan priorities while ticking of the MAGA crowd.

It must be another day that ends in a “Y”

Partisanship and representation in conflict.

Virginia’s governor is finding running a state harder than running a venture capitalist firm.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

Five months too late, we’re back to the Biden-McCarthy deal.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

It’s easy if you try.

An unsurprising result.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

There’s momentum for changing the most controversial Trump era tax change.

Will wonders never cease?

A credulous report strings together some anedotes and dubious polling.

And the intuition that things aren’t really working.

Some historical context.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

Take this job and shove it. I ain’t workin’ here no more.

A David Brooks column inspires some thoughts.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

I know it when I see it.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

Emmer drops out.

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

In a bathtub?

He might prefer McDeath.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

A roundup of news and opinon.

It appears a shutdown has been averted after all.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

The House is in recess as the exasperated GOP leadership tries to figure a way out.

A trip through comparative democratic reform.

There’s no end in sight to an absurd standoff.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

The abaya is now banned as well.

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.