Outside the Beltway

It’s depressingly short.

He isn’t very popular.

Public perception is not aligned with the top level data.

After weeks of protest, a solid effort.

A pending mandate in Louisiana

Here are some special papers.

The Alitos and the upside-down flag.

A gross miscarriage of justice.

Seven decades after de jure segregation was outlawed, de facto segregation is alive and well.

The President wants an alternative schedule and format.

Compared to any available alternative, yes.

Presidential v. senatorial polling in swings states is just, well, odd.

A potential GOP self-own in south Texas.

Veep edition.

Yesterday’s New Jersey speech was something to behold.

Shady accounting practices from well before he entered politics are coming back to bite him in the ass.

Democrats are helping the Republican Speaker tame his nihilist wing.

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

On the complexity of political funding.

Well, more than two…

Heads he wins, tails you lose.

Immunity edition.

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

It’s been around for a very long time.

Americans are concerned about very different things.

And you might ask yourself: “how did we get here?”

Police have been brought at universities across the country.

He’s more than just a kook.

The NYT is going all-in painting it as “far more radical, vindictive and unchecked” than the first.

Americans look back more fondly on the Trump economy than they did in 2020.

Are we betraying the Founders?

A disturbing dissection in the NYT Magazine.

A famed political forecaster doesn’t believe the polls.

David Brooks edition.

A republic if you can keep it, indeed.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

MAGA Republicans have owned themselves whilst trying to own the libs.

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

Simplistic solutions to complex problems lead to human suffering.

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

It is a bit of a mess.

A longstanding project inches forward.

A set of bills would fund Ukraine, Israel, and other bipartisan priorities while ticking of the MAGA crowd.

It must be another day that ends in a “Y”

It’s a relative thing.

An anti-Trump Republican endorses Trump.

Some initial thoughts.