Outside the Beltway

Even as a lame duck, he still holds domination over the party.

More than any of his predecessors, we know in real time.

A gunman got off shots at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

The state of being too big to care.

Really, more under RFK’s nose.

The controversial civil rights leader is gone at 84.

One of the great success stories of American governance—economic growth paired with environmental progress—has gone largely unnoticed.

I guess this means it’s open again.

A commercial has hurt the CINC’s fee-fees.

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

A weird, unnecessary intervention.

Both the policy issues but also the way it illustrates the politics of us versus them.

They may whine and bluster, but Trump always gets their votes.

Salting the earth and breaking the law.

It’s still murky but already quite different from the Trump 45 administration’s.

Applying rational analysis to attitude and instinct.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

Deadlnes make deals.

A surprising honor.

A reflection on four decades of presidential elections.

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

Not a Red Wave but a Red Shift?

Here we go again.

Our long national nightmare is not over.