Outside the Beltway

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

Thoughts on the election and on the electoral rules used.

Using money to control the GOP.

The 45th President and the press, part a million.

He’s still a convicted felon in California, though.

John Fetterman says he’s not a progressive.

The highest court has agreed to expedite a ruling on a novel question.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

Some interesting (and potentially disturbing) polling trends.

A $787.5 million flesh wound.

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

In other news, there’s gambling going on at Casablanca.

His attacks are, in fact, the best case for tenure.

A scandal within a scandal.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

Apparently, all those states legislating on transgender kids playing sports are doing it for no reason.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

He’s doubling down on hypocrisy.

Another allegation of Biden misbehavior that is another category altogether.

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

The presumptive Democratic nominee says, “They aren’t true. This never happened.”