Outside the Beltway

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.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

For 2020, Kansas Democrats are making some interesting changes to how they will have a say in he race for the Democratic nomination.

A new poll finds that a small majority of Americans support abolishing the Electoral College, but that’s not nearly enough to make any change in how we elect Presidents possible.

Jack Goldsmith pushed back on “over the top” reaction to the AG’s handling of the Mueller report.

The attorney general hasn’t said a single thing that wasn’t technically true about the Mueller report. But he was dishonest.

When it comes to Herman Cain’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board, the answer is officially Nein, Nein, Nein!

The White House appears to be preparing for the worst when it comes to the nominations of Herman Cain and Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board.

Both major parties have claimed victory but it certainly looks like Likud will hang on.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

The tumultuous turnover at the top of the Trump team is too much.

John Fund thinks I am afraid of Stephen Moore (and that I am an economist). He is wrong on both counts.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Many are calling for the UK Prime Minister’s ouster. But the problem is Brexit itself, not any one leader.