Outside the Beltway

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Signs and portents?

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

They should panic, right?

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Top Four likely makes things worse.

Could Alaska point the way to a solution?

It’s not all about Trump.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

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.