Outside the Beltway

Calling it a “deal” is vastly over-selling it.

From the Cliché File.

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

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

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

A recurring genre about presidents.

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

The research is not as robust as you’d think.

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

Hopefully answering a reader question (but probably just making it all worse).

The role of American political institutions.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.

Because they’re indoctrinating the youth with their biased agendas and liberal, unfactual diastribes.

Crises tend to be distracting.

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

Two related examples: are they “cancel culture” or not?

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

Do you believe in miracles?

An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing

Why clearing criminal records makes economic sense

Can the Misery Index be far behind?

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

It’s Manchin-approved.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

I’m shocked, shocked, to find that this is happening here.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

The 46th President will follow the lead of the 40th in making a historic appointment.

A bloc of moderates is not coming to a Senate near you.

Is the administration governing like it’s 2009?

It doesn’t add up.

Some pundits have high standards.

The highest court in the land issued a split decision on President Biden’s COVID policy.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

It doesn’t matter what I believe. It only matters what I can prove.

A necessary but likely irrelevant gesture.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

Apparently, getting her elected President is not a high enough priority in the Biden White House.

The effective number of parties.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.