Outside the Beltway

Florida has a lot of cases.

His executive order blocks schools from having masking rules.

Behind the CDC’s messaging debacle.

It goes into effect next season.

The College Republican National Committee Chairman elections shows the lessons taught by the national party.

Another R/D cleavage?

He will challenge Greg Abbott for the GOP nomination.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

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A tragic story gets more complicated.

Public health shouldn’t be made into a partisan issue.

Ron DeSantis and friends are afraid of higher education.

The second won’t be so fortunate.

You know, some light weekend thoughts.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

The author of beloved children’s books is gone at 91.

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

The Southeast has been hit especially hard.

A typical case of American blind justice.

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

The trends over the last half century are really something.

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

Rogue cops, racial profiling, tainted cases, and the lack of consequences.

Is a de minimus standard too small?

It makes sense for large-scale venues, yes? But making sense is not the issue.

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

Quite a number of Democratic Congressmen are thinking about seeking a new job.

Nonhierarchical parties strike again.

The evidence is too clear to ignore at this point.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

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

The talk radio megastar has died, aged 70.

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

143 at the 11th hour.

The Crimson Tide’s best season is one that shouldn’t have been played.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

It’s easy to mismanage what we don’t have to see.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Who ya got?

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

A case involving Pennsylvania may not be resolved for quite some time. Thankfully, it’s immaterial to the election outcome.

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.