Outside the Beltway

Trump’s second term would be much worse than his first.

Efforts to oust him from the race have picked up steam.

Some interesting, if unworkable, ideas.

Impeach the Justices! Pack the Court!

All of the legal remedies are impossible.

Too little, too late.

A reasonable ruling clarifying a poorly-written prior opinion.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

A pending mandate in Louisiana

Elements of democratic theory: minority edition.

Democrats are helping the Republican Speaker tame his nihilist wing.

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

Well, more than two…

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

It’s been around for a very long time.

Are we betraying the Founders?

MAGA Republicans have owned themselves whilst trying to own the libs.

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

A set of bills would fund Ukraine, Israel, and other bipartisan priorities while ticking of the MAGA crowd.

It must be another day that ends in a “Y”

Partisanship and representation in conflict.

Virginia’s governor is finding running a state harder than running a venture capitalist firm.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

Five months too late, we’re back to the Biden-McCarthy deal.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

It’s easy if you try.

An unsurprising result.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

There’s momentum for changing the most controversial Trump era tax change.

Will wonders never cease?

A credulous report strings together some anedotes and dubious polling.

And the intuition that things aren’t really working.

Some historical context.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

Take this job and shove it. I ain’t workin’ here no more.

A David Brooks column inspires some thoughts.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

I know it when I see it.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

Emmer drops out.

The ongoing Republican debacle and what it says about representative democracy in the US.