Outside the Beltway

Plus I indulge in a little political fantasizing.

Examples from TX and KY.

The Republican Honey Badger Caucus is getting bigger.

Yes, that might be kissing noises you hear…

Republicans are winning the gerrymandering wars thus far.

A significant blow to Democrats.

Plus, I question the timing.

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

We’ve switched roles.

Hegseth’s pulpit.

The martial artist and action movie star is gone at 86.

The iconic labor leader had a dark secret.

Oil prices are sharply up.

An ominous sign for the majority party.

Just more evidence of how our institutions help shape our parties.

What it is and isn’t. Some polisci basics.

Plus CBS and the Trump administration keep forgetting about the Streisand Effect.

A great American actor is gone at 95.

The critics are divided.

Another data point that shows Trump’s unpopularity.

Destroying democracy in order to save it.

Combining two items that will be hallmarks of his second term.

TACO Tuesday?

A slow-moving disaster.

Abigail Spanberger made history this afternoon.

A clash between American and European models.

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

The Committee has some hard choices to make.

Who needs fancy book learnin’ if you already have all the answers?

Although it is still on life support.

Lack of understanding and poor institutional design=bad political outcomes.

The move to build Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom is moving at record speed.

Some limits on Democratic pushback

Not so much.

She was not amused by the administration’s workaround.

The evil of others rarely brings out our best.

As well as the politics that have followed.

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?

A student, her cell phone, and yet more authoritarianism in contemporary America.

The former White House physican (and current Congressman)’s demotion for misconduct has been reversed.