Outside the Beltway

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

Emotional testimony from police will kick off the event.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

When he said he wouldn’t sign it if it wasn’t accompanied by a second bill, he wasn’t implying that he would veto it if it wasn’t.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

A meaningless gesture that’s long overdue.

It passed the Senate unanimously.

He’s in the minority but promises to start obstructing again if that changes.

The piling on continues.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

Speaker Pelosi and House Republicans are waging separate battles with science.

A quick lesson about American parties.

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

The trends over the last half century are really something.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

They were “disrespectful to the rule of law.”

Look at who’s lined up against H.R. 1.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

Quite a number of Democratic Congressmen are thinking about seeking a new job.

A little-known rule might allow a majority to pass one more bill.

Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!

Any “fair” drawing of districts will yield a GOP advantage over time.

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

The case of Katie Porter’s committee assignments.

Is the stimulus bill it for this administration?

How the West Virginia Democrat came to vote for the stimulus bill.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Could the Vice President end the filibuster herself?

An opportunity for unity and a restoration of normal order.

Some political history,

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Not.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.

A change to the language is being proposed as part of a sweeping immigration overhaul.

And here we go.

It’s finally officially official.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

Our long national farce is over.

Too little, too late.