Outside the Beltway

We’re going to make history one way or another in November.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Democrats say they want an candidate who is electable.

There was not a singular “winner” last night, so we need to stop talking like there was.

The plurality of New Hampshire voters are unaffiliated. Should they all stay at home?

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

Is there a new frontrunner?

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The State of the Union is petulant.

(At least the removal part)

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

What difference at this point does it make?

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

A political scientist argues that college-educated intellectuals are doing politics wrong.

Feel free to discuss the quiz and/or share your results in the comments.

A bit more about the mechanics of the comments section.

More conversation about moderated conversations.

More on presidential nonsense with a brief diversion into blogging philosophy.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

President Trump has a huge decision to make.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

A mysterious conversation with a foreign leader is at the center of a controversy between the intelligence community and Congress.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

In the US, the candidate defines the party, not the other way around.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

There’s an inherent tension in our national ethos.