Outside the Beltway

Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 11 states.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Why would a group that claims it has evidence of ballot harvesting refuse to turn it over?

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

The polls do not bode well for Democrats.

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

The SAT is a poor measure of college aptitude but it’s better than most others.

Because of course it was.

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

Why clearing criminal records makes economic sense

DC’s NFL franchise finally has a new name.

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

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

It doesn’t matter what I believe. It only matters what I can prove.

After more than a year and countless investigations into election fraud, the big lie continues to be a big lie

That didn’t take long.

Some stories of possible interest.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

We’re three short years from the next election.

An epic but improbable win.

Our system and the shaping of the GOP’s future.

Representatives Choosing Their Voters Rather than Vice Versa, Chapter 412.

Another example for the conversation.

It turns out “the economy” isn’t just one thing.

The tabs must flow.

A long-overdue change appears to be happening.

The Catch-22 of passing a massive spending bill in an undemocratic system.

Grandstanding in the midst of chaos is a bad look.

Another approach to persuasion.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

The media became the story but the President was the news.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

It’s finally officially official.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

The science and ethics are not the hardest part of determining who should go first.