Outside the Beltway

A breakdown of new survey data.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

The Gulf and Western singer, songwriter, and mogul has died at 76.

The leader of The Band is gone at 80.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

Permanent felon disenfranchisement is unconstitutional.

An appropriate step.

Turning good deeds into dirty politics.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

You can’t fire me, I quit!

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

They join DC and San Francisco.

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

“You can’t be against everything.”

We can’t find enough people to treat cows, pigs, and horses.

A one-of-a-kind coach is gone far too soon.

A member of the inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class and the most recent Country Music Hall of Fame class is gone at 87.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

A thought inspired by the PA Senate race.

31 of the 35 Senate races next month are noncompetititve.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

No one should draw conclusions about RCV from the AK special election.

The agency says a 1986 law overrides state restrictions.

It’s been more of a reading than writing morning.

We live in a bizarre timeline.

A comparison of the two texts.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

It’s not all about Trump.

The laying out of the case begins.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

I’m shocked, shocked, to find that this is happening here.

People, details do in fact matter!

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

An epic but improbable win.

Oral arguments on the biggest abortion case in decades will be heard today.

Resolving the legal issues will take time we don’t have.

Let’s look at the numbers and the clear effects of policy choices.