Outside the Beltway

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

The case of Katie Porter’s committee assignments.

Reacting to the asymmetrical polarization of the electorate.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Yet another reminder about pathologies of US democracy.

Democrats are already jockeying to influence President Biden’s pick should a vacancy arise.

Now, we’re just haggling over price.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Some reflections

Some marginal Republican formers are thinking about maybe doing somethingoranother.

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

Some political history,

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

Let me point you to a reform proposal.

The GOP will almost certainly survive. But in what form?

A startling number than may understate the problem.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

A very low-spoilers review.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

At high noon.

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

Competing priorities.

A trend continues.

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

Who’s to blame for the Blue Wave not materializing?

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Some surprising poll numbers.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

A long-winded and esoteric discussion about an elusive idea.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

A quick overview and some examples to start a longer conversation.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.