Outside the Beltway

“Sunset in the San Diego Bay”

McHenry has no more terms to give to his country.

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

He faces up to 17 years in prison.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around any more.

A television icon is gone at 101.

400-plus general and flag officer promotions went through almost instantaneously.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The headline wrote itself.

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

“Up from the Mine”

Sorry, Senator Rubio.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court is gone at 93.

So says a unanimous DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel.

The unworkable Republican caucus is about to get less workable.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

The conspirator is living large while his victims go unpaid.

Prices are way up, even though the CPI is back under control.

A bureaucratic nightmare.

Take this job and shove it. I ain’t workin’ here no more.

Another sad data point about current politics.

More importantly, comments on challenges to incumbent presidents.

The cease-fire will end. What follows is not at all clear.

“Ready to Fly”

Most no longer believe it’s possible to get ahead through hard work.

America’s weird system for choosing Presidents keeps getting weirder.

A T-Day Illustration.

Turns out there is an easy way out.

Continued disjunctures between perceptions and the indicators.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.