Outside the Beltway

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

It might feel good but it has zero impact on Putin.

A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

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

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

An epic but improbable win.

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

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

The erosion of representativeness continues.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

Working conditions rather than labor supply seems to be the issue.

A conversation in two parts.

Officers are under enormous pressure–including from the Federal government–to write tickets.

There is a lot of anger out there.

Women are increasingly dominating American higher education.

The President hit all the right notes.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

A chance for a real investigation? Ruined legitimacy?

This time: the Alaska GOP.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

An ugly situation that’s getting uglier.

Some Democratic election observers think so.

He will challenge Greg Abbott for the GOP nomination.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

A bizarre development looks to upend it less than 24 hours after it was announced.

A lottery brings out the worst in a small town.

The inevitable is now very much in progress.

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

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

Is a de minimus standard too small?

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

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

Quite a number of Democratic Congressmen are thinking about seeking a new job.

The Excelsior Pass is the nation’s first. Will it start a trend?

At least 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca are sitting in American facilities unused.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

Hammerin’ Hank is gone.

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

The Crimson Tide’s best season is one that shouldn’t have been played.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.

The best two teams in college football play for it all amid some controversy.

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

More packages are being mailed than ever and USPS can’t keep up.