Outside the Beltway

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

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

Localities are consolidating local elections to coincide with national ones. Some don’t like that.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

It was a squeaker, but this one is a win for the MAGAs.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.

The Needle is Broken

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

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

The reactionary press is once again misrepresenting diversity training.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

Pfizer and Moderna will soon roll out protection against newer strains.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

Police and the Punisher Skull

We live in a bizarre timeline.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

Because of course it was.

Lawyers in North Carolina are trying to get a Congressman off the ballot.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

For your consideration.

The biggest news doesn’t always get the most attention.

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

There is a lot of anger out there.

Refusniks are creating an ethical dilemma for the triage system.

Really, they owed (and still owe) us better behavior.

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

The President hit all the right notes.

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

The downside of the “good guy with a gun” trope.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

A law seeking to help the state’s workers seems to be having the opposite effect.

Even incredibly abnormal Presidents are Presidents.

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

A shocking yet unsurprising statistic.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

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

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

Here we go again.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,