Outside the Beltway

A little electoral studies wonkery for Sunday morning contemplation.

An epic finale.

An unpopular war and sagging economy are driving down already low ratings.

Winging it is seldom a sound diplomatic strategy.

Yet more gems from the Commander-in-Chief.

It’s hard to win a street fight under Marquess of Queensberry rules.

Republicans are winning the gerrymandering wars thus far.

A significant blow to Democrats.

The Iran War’s latest victim.

The one-time media mogul has passed at 87.

Disentangling the two is challenging, if not impossible.

Free speech is not always met with more speech.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

The state of being too big to care.

No significant U.S. war aims were achieved.

She’s transitioning to an as-yet unspecified role the private sector.

Now an airport.

The Nick Fuentes phenomenon.

ICE, ICE baby?

An American patriot is gone at 81.

The martial artist and action movie star is gone at 86.

The iconic labor leader had a dark secret.

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

When international tournaments aren’t international.

An update from the Commander-in-Chief.

The controversial civil rights leader is gone at 84.

A great American actor is gone at 95.

This administration isn’t debating history. It’s distorting it for its own narrow purposes methodically. And predictably.

An absurd matter has come to its rightful conclusion.

Some criminologists have identified a new trend.

Other schools are likely to follow.

Trump and the Obamas.

A great newspaper is suffering another round of cutbacks.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Sanford and Son actor is gone at 79.

Flooding the zone saps his opponent’s attention, but also his White House’s.

The big lie of 2020 continues.

The legendary cartoonist turned MAGA influencer is gone at 68.

Has the tide turned?

“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

We’ve seen this movie before.

Fewer lies! Fewer experts!

The economy sparked this particular uprising.

The fixes people want won’t help and those that will help, people don’t want.

Jobs were lost and people have died (and will die), but at least we didn’t save any money!

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

Everybody knows you never go full MAGA.

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?