Outside the Beltway

The will of the majority can prevail even in a skewed system.

Parsing the results thus far.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

The class photo has changed.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

As Democrats gain college-educated voters, they’re losing Hispanics and men.

Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

Momentum for ending an undemocratic anachronism is building.

We’re three short years from the next election.

It’s not funny when you have to constantly explain the jokes.

Voters are suppose to choose elected officials, not the other way around.

Let’s look at the numbers and the clear effects of policy choices.

The Lone Star State has enacted some peculiar new laws.

The long demographic trend continues.

The rate at which Americans are getting COVID shots is slowing rapidly.

Critical race theory rears its ugly head yet again.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).

The hidden wokeness of our new Critical Theory-loving President.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

Injecting data into the conversation.

It’s just not immediate.

A majority of Americans of every sex, race, education, income, or region do the right thing. With one exception.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

Joe Biden won with every group imaginable—and some that were unimaginable.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

Suicide has become a bigger threat to members of the military and veterans than combat. That needs to change.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

A new poll shows Joe Biden dropping significantly among national Democrats to the point where he is effectively tied with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

I’m not sure his solution is correct or even legal. But the problem is very real.

We’ve soon see whether the current Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade.

All three children of the next head of the Army are following in his footsteps.

The narrow loser of the Georgia governor’s race has left open the possibility of running for President.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

Last November the state voted overwhelming to amend its constitution. The lawmakers they elected at the same time are sabotaging it.

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.