Outside the Beltway

The current business model is collapsing. It’s about time.

It’s Nixon’s fault?

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

A weird twist to the online leak story.

A significant cut to staff and programming to stay afloat.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

Musings about US politics and culture.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

An irresponsible Trump-era practice continues.

SLT guests on Peaceful Political Revolution in America to talk American democracy.

Arend Lijphart on the “Peaceful Political Revolution in America” podcast.

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

Providing a little bit of electoral history.

Continuing and expanding on thoughts from the previous post.

A review and an invitation to discuss.

An interesting podcast conversation.

Discussing the filibuster.

A podcast recommendation.

An artist engages with her critic.

SLT talking Colombia.

The Ezra Klein show on the “infrastructure” bill.

An interesting but uneven debate.

A really weird proposal to solve a problem that probably doesn’t exist.

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

Understanding Moral Disagreements

The disgraced loser remains as popular as ever with his base.

Its founders are laughing all the way to the bank.

Most Americans have never even heard of it.

Telecommuting has taken a bite out of an industry built on commuting.

The Daily on the Russia bounty story.

The Daily: “The History and Meaning of Juneteenth”

1619, Episode Three

Codeswitch.

“Oh, Hello: the P’dcast”

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

The Daily: “Alone Together”

“The Daily” on Covid-19 and Italy.

The women, minority, and non-geriatric candidates have been all but eliminated from the race.

Trek edition

A podcast about podcasting

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Ben Wittes succinctly describes a phenomenon that I’ve been struggling with for three years.

Glenn Reynolds announced via his USA Today column that he has deleted his Twitter account.

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

Forty years ago tonight, the Star Wars universe came to television in a production so bad that it makes Jar Jar Binks seem positively Shakespearean by comparison.