Outside the Beltway

The realignment of America’s political parties wasn’t quite what was hoped.

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

Whither American civil religion?

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

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

It’s just not immediate.

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

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

2012 may be the last chance for the current Republican Party to win the White House.

While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.