Outside the Beltway

Trump asked him to overturn the election.

The electorate is less alarmed than it was four years ago. Which is good!

A Representative’s slip of the tongue and the ensuing debate.

Sigh.

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

Breaking a cardinal rule.

A surprising ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

Eight state have withdrawn from a system to prevent illegal voting because of ignorance and agitation.

We’re getting weird policies almost nobody is asking for.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

The fight over changing the clock twice a year continues.

More on the US party system.

The state of the union is . . . not good.

Someone has stepped up to challenge former President Trump.

One of these is not like the other.

The Robespierres in the House of Representatives are driving American politics in a predictably horrible direction.

The Arizona Senator runs an online thrift store in her spare time.

Because sometimes the comment box is just too small.

More centrist fantasies.

The lines aren’t everything, but they need more attention than they get.

We used to (usually) know the results on Election Night because the outcomes were clearer.

A generic attack ad that’s cringeworthy in the specific.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

Would bypassing politicians altogether make the system more just?

Linking to a piece I wrote for The Conversation.

A dramatic if likely symbolic move.

31 of the 35 Senate races next month are noncompetititve.

Mary Peltola’s election was a milestone for America’s First Peoples.

No one should draw conclusions about RCV from the AK special election.

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

Police and the Punisher Skull

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

Calling it a “deal” is vastly over-selling it.

From the Cliché File.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

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

Greatest democracy in the world, right?

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

The court wisely deferred to Congress in setting its own rules.

It doesn’t add up.

A necessary but likely irrelevant gesture.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.