Outside the Beltway

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.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

And Biden approval down.

Hillary Clinton edition.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

The President seems to have persuaded the progressives in his party to settle for half a loaf.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

An amusing incident highlights how far we’ve fallen.

The SNL comic has died of cancer at 61.

A novel but flawed legal argument.

Democrats and Independents are losing their enthusiasm. But some perspective is needed.

Put the frustration where it belongs.

He has nominated only 304 people out 1,200+ that require Senate confirmation.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

Bill Clinton’s strategist thinks his party needs a wake-up call.