Outside the Beltway

The state of the union is . . . not good.

Some 2024ish stuff and other tidbits.

The primary calendar debate shows, yet again, that parties don’t fully control candidate selection.

The market for competent centrists.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.

Open access to party labels has consequences.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Mostly about the majority party.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

In case you need some NYD reading.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

He is so close.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

And thoughts on party systems more generally.

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

What to make of her second straight loss?

One of these laptops is more important than the other.

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

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Losing has a way of creating intraparty strife.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

Parsing the results thus far.

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

The numbers aren’t real. Not yet, anyway.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

Is the President governing like he means it?

Local issues barely matter in Congressional races anymore.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

It’s easy if you try.

A former dissertation advisor and two Army War College professors are speaking out against the gubernatorial candidate.

And a reminder of the role of political parties.

Voting isn’t just about candidates.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

He’s proposed a bill with no chance of passage seemingly timed to hurt his own party in the midterms.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

Shockingly, when the most-watched news outlet is built on divisiveness, the country becomes divided.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.