Outside the Beltway

Another bill doomed to die.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

Stuttgart is catching up with Detroit.

A little debt ceiling, a little higher ed, and other misc delights.

Some tab clearing.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

After 15 votes and innumerable concessions, Kevin McCarthy is nominally in charge of the House of Representatives.

In case you need some NYD reading.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

“You can’t be against everything.”

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

A one-of-a-kind coach is gone far too soon.

The Attorney General can’t please everyone, so he’s got to please himself.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

The “America First” slate of candidates lost all but one contest.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

A thought inspired by the PA Senate race.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

31 of the 35 Senate races next month are noncompetititve.

And a reminder of the role of political parties.

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

No one should draw conclusions about RCV from the AK special election.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

A link to my piece for the Pulaski Institution.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

More stories than there is time to blog.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

The numbers don’t match the perception.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

A potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

The network’s longtime weekend anchor couldn’t take it anymore.

Because of course it was.

We can only hope.