Outside the Beltway

They’re taking their eye off the ball.

The NYT and CA41 and yet another example of telling the wrong story.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

An ongoing series of observations.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

The Ohio GOP Senate contest.

The role of American political institutions.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

Anyone familiar with Betteridge’s law of headlines knows where this is going.

He was clearly willing to subvert the election.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

We can only hope.

One can see the faintest hint of a backbone in the former Vice President.

The military threat is smaller, but the political one is bigger.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

It’s Manchin-approved.

Doing the right thing on 1/6/20 doesn’t absolve him of being a key Trump enabler.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

A bloc of moderates is not coming to a Senate near you.

Aggregate self-identification doesn’t tell us much, but the breakdowns do.

A reminder.

The silly season has commenced a mite early.

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

A necessary but likely irrelevant gesture.

After more than a year and countless investigations into election fraud, the big lie continues to be a big lie

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

How the host’s off-camera views contradict what he was telling his audience

A number of GOP politicians criticized Trump over 1/6 and some resigned.

A new poll offers mixed results.

A majority of Americans are less than sure that Biden won the 2020 election.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

Two members of the presidential commission reach the conclusion that expansion is needed.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

A woman who declared “Civil War is coming” and “they have to kill me” has asked for and received leniency.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

A minor story that illustrates a far bigger problem in our politics.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

A conversation in two parts.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.