Outside the Beltway

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

It really is rife with problems.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

“Red States” and “Blue State”

Mostly a policy lament.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

A tough map for the Democrats.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

We can’t find enough people to treat cows, pigs, and horses.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

Opponents lose at the district and SCOTUS level in opening salvos.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

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

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

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

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

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

Stupid is as stupid does.

The project that has been on-again, off-again since 2008 seems to be off for good.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

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

Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!

Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner are among last night’s lucky recipients.

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

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

It’s getting worse, not better.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

Trump needs them both.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A nation that failed to control the pandemic is going to be without college sports this fall.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

Even Republicans are wondering if President Trump is at his “Katrina moment.”

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

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

What if instead of the unit rule, states doled out electoral voter based on the proportion of votes each slate of electors received?

SCOTUS and “faithless electors.”

Ego trumps all?

Why South Korea is so far ahead of us in fighting COVID-19.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

The costs of irresponsible policy.