Outside the Beltway

Turns out there is an easy way out.

Continued disjunctures between perceptions and the indicators.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

A bizarre statement by the head of the Roman Catholic church.

The President has tepid support in the 18-29 demographic.

Hamas gets rewarded for its crimes.

The NYT goes too far but not far enough.

It’s likely legal and almost certainly won’t matter.

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.

A David Brooks column inspires some thoughts.

“Stark”

It’s going to be up to the American people to keep Trump out of the White House.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

I know it when I see it.

A fascinating conversation between two queer journalists.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

Leading candidate for Republican nomination deploys eliminationist rhetoric in Veteran’s Day speech.

Can’t a pundit fantasize about an alternative to the two major parties?

…and the perceptions thereof.

We shouldn’t be surprised that Americans have noticed their grocery bill.

“Afloat”

More on an ongoing saga.

A likely lost seat for Democrats in 2024.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

House Republicans still can’t get out of their own way.

Let the punditry begin.

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

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

Survey research is not without flaws. But we dismiss it at our peril.