Outside the Beltway

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

I couldn’t help myself.

Definitions are fun, right?

The problem is real.

Some upgrade-related wonkiness.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

Institutional reform is necessary, but we can’t accomplish much in the face of tribalism.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

It’s just not immediate.

Telecommuting has taken a bite out of an industry built on commuting.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

Yet another grim milestone.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

Another grim milestone.

Why the ‘moral majority’ is willing to tolerate so much immorality from their leader.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

If the current polls are right, the race will be all but over in five days.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

The precise distribution of 41 measly delegates is now known. Unless there’s a recount.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The media coverage continues on script.

Sad news from the conservative talk icon.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

What difference at this point does it make?

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

A political scientist argues that college-educated intellectuals are doing politics wrong.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

A new poll seems to indicate that Democratic voters aren’t exactly jumping on the Mike Bloomberg train.

Expanding on yesterday afternoon’s post.

I was a guest on the Challenging Opinions podcast.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Presidential v. parliamentary democracy, some basics.

The next Prime Minster of the United Kingdom will be chosen by a very small segment of both the population and the Conservative Party. Does that make sense?

We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

A convergence of OTB discussions.

Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is assisting the Russian leader in his goal of undermining the foundational institutions of democracy and freedom.