Outside the Beltway

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

It’s been around for a very long time.

It’s no longer just a Third World problem.

Some interesting tidbits.

No, I don’t feel terrible now.

The roots of MAGA run deep, through places like my old home.

The politics of chaos.

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and MAGA.

Lie down with dogs you get up with fleas edition.

Survey research is not without flaws. But we dismiss it at our peril.

This makes four.

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

How far should the government be able to go?

The parties do not control their labels.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

In a world of fixed positions, is debating in good faith really worth it?

Separating rhetoric from action.

Eight state have withdrawn from a system to prevent illegal voting because of ignorance and agitation.

Applying nuanced judgement under the highest scrutiny is what we expect, but don’t often get.

The stiffest punishment yet for a January 6 seditionist.

Seems about right.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

Why was it released to the public?

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

More than a quarter of Americans know something that isn’t true.

The past just won’t let him be.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

Twenty five alleged plotters have been arrested

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

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

We live in a bizarre timeline.

The pandemic forced the spread of useful technology.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

Magically mobilizing nonvoters isn’t going to happen (but it sounds nice, I suppose).

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

An incredibly isolated Russian leader is not interested in running the country.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

A scary if misleading factoid.

Politicians gonna politician, but still…