Outside the Beltway

The court declined to review a preacher’s lawsuit against my alma mater.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

“Red States” and “Blue State”

The lunatic fringe idea is both appealing and unworkable.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

A new Census definition has changed classifications slightly. It doesn’t go nearly far enough.

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

Democrats increase their Senate margin.

The will of the majority can prevail even in a skewed system.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

One of these things is not like the other.

This kind of “analysis” drives me nuts

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

There was some quiet meddling going on.

Even the 2020 election deniers are conceding close elections in the midterms.

Thinking about what was likely and what wasn’t.

Parsing the results thus far.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

A low bar has been cleared.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.