Outside the Beltway

The Democrats are in a good place heading into their convention.

Stoking anti-Semitism for political gain

His Presidential aspirations may have played a big factor

The reset is real.

Most departments have shockingly little screening of their officers.

Five minutes is an eternity in the current information environment.

We’re back to Square 1.

Taking a closer look at Cooper, Kelly, and Shapiro

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

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

A shocking if perhaps unsurprising development.

There’s something for everyone in the post-debate surveys.

The slide continues.

More polling that contradicts the panic.

He’s doing better in all the swing states but one than in 2020.

Quick thought on fundraising.

Part the millionth.

It all comes down to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

*Parenthetically, his opponent wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

Democratic strategists are complaining that Biden is being too honest.

The weirdness of this year’s polling gives the President’s team hope.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

A beach home and “An Appeal to Heaven”

It’s depressingly short.

War crime does pay.

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

It’s been around for a very long time.

Americans look back more fondly on the Trump economy than they did in 2020.

A longstanding project inches forward.

It’s a relative thing.

He may be fighting the last war.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

Damned if I know.

The inevitable is all but official.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

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

Some things shouldn’t be joked about (and they often aren’t jokes anyway).

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

A breakdown of new survey data.

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court is gone at 93.

America’s weird system for choosing Presidents keeps getting weirder.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

Looking ahead to November 5, 2024

Trump is making verbal gaffes while making fun of Biden’s verbal gaffes.

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

Three increasingly-embarrassing defeats is all you get, apparently.