Outside the Beltway

The race is on before the 89-year-old has announced her intentions.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

The Michigan Senator’s stepping down at a reasonable age shocked everyone.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Some tab plus some tabs equals some tabs.

“You can’t be against everything.”

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

The past just won’t let him be.

Enjoy.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

He is so close.

It would be an abuse of power.

Because of course she is.

Contrary to a Politico headline, the GOP response to Trump’s anti-constitution talk continues to underwhelm.

The times they are a changing.

Democratic politicians are lining up behind the octogenarian President.

How much ticket-splitting was there in gubernatorial v. senatorial races this cycle?

The re-election campaign is quietly forming but don’t expect an announcement any time soon.

Most don’t even know it passed!

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

They’re a bloc but also not.

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

The former President knowingly signed a false affidavit in support of the Big Lie.

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

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

Jim VandeHei and company have put out a new style guide.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

The Department of Justice takes an utterly unsurprising, but important step in the Mar-a-lago document case

He’s proposed a bill with no chance of passage seemingly timed to hurt his own party in the midterms.

Shockingly, when the most-watched news outlet is built on divisiveness, the country becomes divided.

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

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

Paywalls are not our problem.

Sometimes people just change jobs.

The agency says a 1986 law overrides state restrictions.

Elon backs out.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

You’re goddamn right he did.