Outside the Beltway

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

Democrats meet this week to set the 2024 primary calendar.

A showdown over wages could upend the apprenticeship arrangement that has long characterized graduate education.

Well, kind of, but not really.

The Needle is Broken

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

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

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

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

Oh, and committed insurance fraud to boot.

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban may or may not be back in effect.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

It’s Manchin-approved.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

The safety gap between affluent, white and poor, minority communities has grown over the last three decades.

The television star increasingly known for her longevity has passed days shy of her 100th birthday.

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

The next boot has dropped.

Rural-urban is now a bigger divide than North-South.

COVID vaccine hesitancy is just the tip of the iceberg.

The trends over the last half century are really something.

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

More voice, more votes, more representation.

Don’t believe everything you see on TV.

They were “disrespectful to the rule of law.”

Jimmy Carter’s Vice President and the 1984 Democratic nominee has died at 93.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

A new poll from Texas give us a chance to think about parties and nominations in the US.

A criminal trial is a poor venue for solving society’s problems.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

Many states are moving to a first come, first served basis for COVID shots.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Almost 50 losses in four weeks,. Impressive.

The numbers behind recounts.

The President’s claims have no merit.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

They are standing by as ordered.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

Injecting data into the conversation.

More good news for Biden.