Outside the Beltway

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

My contribution to a continuing debate.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

Mostly about how not to do it.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

Any “fair” drawing of districts will yield a GOP advantage over time.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

All the states have been called.

Revisiting predictions about what would happen if what has happened happened.

More good news for Biden.

Joementum.

Because sometimes a comment starts to become a post.

Yet another grim milestone.

Or just a bump in the road?

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

Could the fevered dream really come true?

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.

After months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong headed to the polls in record number.

The next steps in the impeachment process are relatively easy to predict.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

The House of Commons handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a huge loss yesterday, throwing the short-term future of Brexit into doubt.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

Beto O’Rourke is once again rejecting the idea of running for Senate instead of President.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

Later today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument in a case that could upend the Affordable Care Act.

A law review article written when the former was a student provides an interesting contrast.

June’s jobs report brought in stronger than expected numbers but the fact that these numbers have not been consistent all year makes one wonder what the state of the economy really is.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

May’s Jobs Report came back with disappointing jobs growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

The transatlantic rejection of elite consensus that began with Brexit continues.

First quarter economic growth came in higher than expected, but there are several caveats worth keeping an eye on.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

Roger Stone, who worked with the Trump campaign in an official and unofficial capacity throughout the campaign, has been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Theresa May survived the Labour Party’s call for a no-confidence vote, but the future for her and for her country remain as hazy as ever.

Two years of Republican control of the Legislative and Executive Branches has put us back on a path toward $1 trillion budget deficits.

Eight years after it was signed into law, a Federal Judge has ruled the Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional.