Outside the Beltway

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

We can all agree that Trump and Biden are over the line. But where is it?

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

Sigh.

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.

A race a Democrat will definitely win will be the most expensive in US history.

More thinking about the 2024 GOP primary.

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

The DC district attorney’s office is looking into allegations of masssive tax fraud.

Virginia’s governor has raised a ton of money.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

The Establishment is desperate for an alternative that’s not coming.

The English are having a periodic reassertion of the “right to roam.”

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

Some New York Republicans are fighting for their constituents and against the GOP leadership.

When something simple isn’t so simple.

A simple typo misdirected millions of emails intended for the US military.

The Electoral College is holding a nation of millions back.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

The evidence is pretty thin.

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

You can’t fire me, I quit!