Outside the Beltway

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.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

Senator Romney and the latest edition of the senatorial pro-filibuster op/ed.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

The West Virginia Senator is the epicenter of contemporary American politics.

It does not create better deliberation.

Canada has more parties than the US, but still suffers representation problems due to FPTP elections.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

More machinations from the mischievous mining mouthpiece.

He beats the alternative.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Discussing the filibuster.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

The country is in peril.

Our political leadership is just too damn old for our good.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.