Outside the Beltway

The inevitable has happened.

A look at several models.

They are standing by as ordered.

Joe Biden’s chances remain extraordinarily good.

Sigh.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

The problem is real.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

A case where the truth doesn’t seem to matter.

Not new.
Not surprising.
Still, pretty amazing.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

The general election campaign is about to kick off in earnest.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Statehood is on the ballot this November.

More on SCOTUS expansion and other issues.

Perhaps a bit of a hot take.

It is about finding ways to combat minority rule.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

Is Trump really an outlier?

A defense of the indefensible.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

The Electoral College is once again having the opposite effect of what its defenders claim.

A potentially catastrophic delay has been averted.

Sorry, UC Irvine, as long as Navarro is on the faculty, no donations from this graduate.

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

More good news for Biden.

Thinking about wildfires and electoral politics.

It will, however, be appealed to SCOTUS.

A pleasant surprise.

A party-line vote may scuttle mail-in voting in a crucial swing state.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

A game wherein one team has to score more points to win than does the other.

The two oldest major party nominees in American history are not inspiring great confidence.

The formula: promote an image until the jig is up.

The President admits that he intentionally downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic.

The AG is not supposed to be the President’s personal attorney.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

Biden is polling well, and consistently so.

Our screwy electoral system requires thinking about screwy scenarios.

Media bias is real, but it isn’t what many claim it to be.