Outside the Beltway

Not everything is racially-motivated but most things have a disparate impact.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

She is the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in British history.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

Biden is following Trump’s lead but doing it more competently.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

Georgia Republicans didn’t violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

Manipulating public opinion with dubious survey research.

They could be overstating support for Democrats. Or understating it. Or be more or less right.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

For the first time in a long time, Presidential approval numbers and voter preferences aren’t’ aligned.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

Gallup has him at his highest point in a year.

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

Sigh.

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

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Approval is down (again).

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

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

Another example of why the filibuster needs to go.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

He met with people. And, get this, with his father!

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.