Outside the Beltway

Testing a hypothesis or two.

Where’s the positive example?

How party change actually works in the US. Plus more on messaging and organzing.

Trump’s personal lawyer, and man accused of telling DOJ lawyers to ignore court orders is now a federal judge.

Have I ever noted the Congress is less responsive to the public than it should be?

Force to create compliance should not be supported or excused. And yet…

Immunity edition.

Some historical context.

Virginia’s governor has raised a ton of money.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

The past just won’t let him be.

How much ticket-splitting was there in gubernatorial v. senatorial races this cycle?

Every vote counted, with refreshing results.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

This kind of “analysis” drives me nuts

It boils down to NV or GA.

A thought inspired by the PA Senate race.

And a reminder of the role of political parties.

Voting isn’t just about candidates.

American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

A illustration from the Senate race in Georgia.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

The days of unanimous votes are long behind us.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

It’s Manchin-approved.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

The 83-year-old Justice is playing a dangerous game.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.