Outside the Beltway

More on the clear white supremacist ideology oozing from the Trump administration.

Our present-day politics reminds us that the “unfinished work” of democracy is never fully complete.  

Testing a hypothesis or two.

Majorities gonna majority.

Political scientists, however, are skeptical.

We need to be focused on the system, not fantasies about messages and organization.

One-third of a day.

E-I-E-I-O

Most of the world knows that PR is a better way to elect legislatures.

Andor: Part 3!

Andor, part 2.

You can’t take the politics out of politics.

The administration’s war on higher ed has escalated.

Being nice at dinner is easy.

If this is American greatest, I prefer it when things were “going to hell.”

A day of AI, tariffs, and world historic stupidity.

He was looking for an election to buy.

You know, the meritocracy at work.

Informed, somber voices in these perilous times.

“…but I didn’t vote for that.”

Here we go again.

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

Where the science and art of polling intersect.

One of these things is not like the other.

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

But the story will continue for a while yet.

More post-debate thoughts and a reminder about how US parties work.

A morally right but politically fraught move.

The moderates are gone.

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

The politics of chaos.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

Ignorance, it turns out, isn’t bliss.

The system isn’t very good.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

When the obvious is controversial.

Because I think it is really important.

Another illustration of the weakness of the American party system.

The House is in recess as the exasperated GOP leadership tries to figure a way out.

A longtime friend has passed.

Say it ain’t so!

The North Dakota governor really, really wants to be on TV.

Separating rhetoric from action.

It is something we need to think about.

A post about thinking in a comparative way.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day