Outside the Beltway

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.

The legendary football player and pitchman is gone at 80.

A mere technicality?

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

He’s getting what he wants.

When something simple isn’t so simple.

The Electoral College is holding a nation of millions back.

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

The justices declined to review a bizarre 4th Circuit decision.

Should we reform the way we train a high-tech workforce?

We’re in uncharted waters.

Are they bored? Delusional?

DC has radically expanded its electorate.

Being against something just isn’t enough.

The popular former Republican governor of Maryland has correctly assessed his chances.

Carville, MTG, and hierarchy in America.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

The market for competent centrists.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

Waaaay too little, waaay too late.

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

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Republicans have died at a far higher rate than Democrats.

It goes deeper than base names.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

it likely won’t do much.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

When doing the right thing is the wrong thing.

An odd kerfuffle in local education politics.

Yet another case where good politics yields bad policy.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

Right wing protestors are expected to attempt to create (more) gridlock in the capitol later today.

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

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

A provision of the 14th Amendment to keep Civil War generals out of office is back in play.