Outside the Beltway

Constant flight delays and other frustrations require a solution.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

And other tales from the AK special election.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

Musings about US politics and culture.

We deserve better.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.

A long-overdue change appears to be happening.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one . . .

The longtime OTB front-pager has passed far too soon.

It’s not perfect but it beats our usual approach to picking winners and losers.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

Here we go again.

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

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

Competing analogies and externalities.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The degree to which the country is divided is truly shocking.

Monmuth’s latest.

Trump continues to lag.

A look at several models.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

A stroll down memory lane.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

Biden’s polling lead over Trump is historically stable.

The status quo ante is not just waiting for us around the corner.

The erstwhile Tea Party Republican is making a run for President.

Sigh.

A discussion of what #NeverTrump means, on Sanders v. Trump, and some about the philosophy of voting.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

Greg Mankiw, an economist who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is officially no longer a Republican

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

It’s not the responsibility of the opposition party to make up for Donald Trump.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the schedule and criteria for the General Election debates. As usual, the criteria are heavily biased in favor of the major party candidates.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.