Outside the Beltway

Why can’t some of us handle the truth?

The denial of transfer to Federal Court could signal problems for Trump’s Presidential Immunity Claims

Trump on peaceful transfers (and Hitler).

Blood poisoning edition.

Lie down with dogs you get up with fleas edition.

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

The inevitable has happened.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

A never-ending saga of politicians choosing their voters.

The theory of the Internet clashes with its reality.

So says a unanimous DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

More on an ongoing saga.

Let the punditry begin.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

Paris is fighting a losing battle over the prominence of their language.

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

Yesterday the Kraken. Today the Cheese. Whose flipping tomorrow?

The rare case where a clickbait headline is actually appropriate.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

In a bathtub?

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

Will at least four Republicans have a spine?

The crazies are this close to a complete takeover.

Sober lessons from Israel.

Some thoughts on the Speaker contest.

The Arizona gubernatorial loser is back to lose the Senate.

One of the worst movies in memory may be getting a sequel.

A roundup of news and opinon.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

What’s behind the sure-to-fail bid to oust his own party’s Speaker?

Why it’s inevitable and what it means.

The President and his predecessor are heading to Detroit.

Also: calls for his resignation.

The House is in recess as the exasperated GOP leadership tries to figure a way out.

Congress is doing something, at least.

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

The MAGA wing is driving us over a cliff.

There’s no end in sight to an absurd standoff.

A perennial fantasy has a new standard bearer.

A slight recalibration (although perhaps not the one that was wanted).

Common ground is, sadly, bad politics.

It’s time for transparency on the Republican Leader’s health.

Yet more evidence of an unfit, unstable candidate.

The Senate Republican Leader had another concerning incident.