Outside the Beltway

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.

In a bathtub?

He might prefer McDeath.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

A roundup of news and opinon.

It appears a shutdown has been averted after all.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

The House is in recess as the exasperated GOP leadership tries to figure a way out.

A trip through comparative democratic reform.

There’s no end in sight to an absurd standoff.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

The abaya is now banned as well.

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

One weird trick could save us from Trump.

A decision that makes no obvious sense.

It’s Nixon’s fault?

His column in the Houston Chronicle fails to impress.

Americans have taken the dominance of the Women’s National Team for granted.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The weakness of anti-drag queen legislation.

A standoff over social issues may derail a $900 billion budget bill.

Fun in the sunshine state.

We all suffer if the the unserious have power.

Tommy Tuberville’s stunt is now impacting the highest levels of the military.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

You can’t fire me, I quit!

The rioting never seems to stop.

The justices declined to review a bizarre 4th Circuit decision.