Outside the Beltway

A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

After more than a year and countless investigations into election fraud, the big lie continues to be a big lie

The Hall of Fame coach and legendary broadcaster is dead at 85.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

We’re three short years from the next election.

Our system and the shaping of the GOP’s future.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

Exercising Constitutional rights comes with a price.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

A largely mythical beast may become even more rare.

A conversation in two parts.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

A massive investigation into the Capitol riot looks at what came before, during, and after.

Continuing and expanding on thoughts from the previous post.

The enigmatic Senator is a world-class attention seeker.

Let’s look at the numbers and the clear effects of policy choices.

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

Instead of complaining, she should use her leverage.

Politics is not a game.

Is there a sarcasm font?

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

Betcha didn’t expect that headline.

Jacob Chansley has agreed to spend 41 to 51 months in prison for his role in the 6 January riots.

Tab clearing time.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

What’s smaller than minuscule?

It’s not getting any better, folks.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

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It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

A few notes from the beach.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

It’s at least as bad as you thought it was.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

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.

Let’s call it what it is.

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

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

When the solution is worse than the problem.

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.

HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.