Outside the Beltway

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

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

Part of an ongoing conversation.

It is a bit of a mess.

A Man For All Seasons goes to the heart of our current political season

He may be fighting the last war.

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

A familiar question is again a reasonable one.

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

Explaining the inexplicable.

A purge of the professional staff for, well, reasons.

Biden did what he needed to do.

The last challenger to Donald Trump bows to reality.

The politics of chaos.

A data point or two amid the panic.

Live! From New York, it’s…wait, what?

Cults of personality are not the same as cults.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

Yes, every special election is a very special snowflake, but trends do emerge

A special counsel has declined to prosecute the President but his rationale was painful.

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and MAGA.

A credulous report strings together some anedotes and dubious polling.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

And the intuition that things aren’t really working.

No big surprises from the dumbest recurring contest in American politics.

The anti-Trump attack dog is out of the race.

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

A poor answer to a softball question has created unnecessary controversy.

Lines on the map for the win.

The media’s favorite Republican is doing better in some polls than the other candidates losing to Trump.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

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

More on an ongoing saga.

Let the punditry begin.

Fading into the background is the appropriate end to his dance with MAGA.

And this doesn’t even clear them all!

The party’s 2012 nominee is an indicator of how fall it has fallen.

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

The rare case where a clickbait headline is actually appropriate.

The Arizona gubernatorial loser is back to lose the Senate.

A satisfying but unlikely explanation.

Why it’s inevitable and what it means.

Another illustration of the weakness of the American party system.

The MAGA wing is driving us over a cliff.

Calling out a large chunk of the GOP.

The inmates are running the asylum.

His message isn’t getting through. Is it the messenger?