Outside the Beltway

Some questions to consider as you evaluate congressional leadership.

The octogenarian Speaker Emerita will not seek re-election.

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

Blue states might get some surprising help.

Why press coverage of the former and possibly future President doesn’t match the reality.

From Juiceboxer to arguably the most important media figure on the left.

A surreal Democratic National Convention.

Unity is good, and “coronation” is the wrong word.

It’s logical, maybe even inevitable. But is it a good idea?

Stuck in the semi-public stage.

Even getting shot, he can’t pretend to be a unifying force for long.

Efforts to oust him from the race have picked up steam.

But the story will continue for a while yet.

A relatively strong performance doesn’t change the narrative.

The President’s demand that Democrats shut up and rally behind him is going unheeded.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

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

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

Here we go again.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

The problem that won’t go away.

Will wonders never cease?

A bizarre call from the former Speaker.

The man is not well.

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

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

The clown show still lacks a ringmaster.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

The Emily’s list leader will be the first Black lesbian in the Senate.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

The 81-year-old Republican leader seems to still suffering from his fall.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

The Biden administration had little choice but to act.

“The GOP” is not a singular unit.

Why was it released to the public?

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

More centrist fantasies.

There will be 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the next Congress.

One of these laptops is more important than the other.

They’re not sending their best people.

Local issues barely matter in Congressional races anymore.