Outside the Beltway

The highest court has agreed to expedite a ruling on a novel question.

The President has tepid support in the 18-29 demographic.

The party’s 2012 nominee is an indicator of how fall it has fallen.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

A political trial for political crimes always yields a political result.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.

The DC district attorney’s office is looking into allegations of masssive tax fraud.

The Electoral College is holding a nation of millions back.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

Thinking about what is predictive as well as the usefulness of historical case studies.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The questionable ethics of living a lavish lifestyle based on high office.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Carville, MTG, and hierarchy in America.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

“You can’t be against everything.”

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

Looking at some historical data.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

What should be the bar? Can it ever be reached?

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

The former President knowingly signed a false affidavit in support of the Big Lie.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

More details from the Alaska special election.

Gallup has him at his highest point in a year.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Approval is down (again).

Are plurality winners less legitimate than popular vote losers?

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

You’re goddamn right he did.

From the Cliché File.

The laying out of the case begins.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.