Outside the Beltway

Must every topic be viewed through that lens?

Is America’s military capable of fighting the next war?

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

New documents reveal the internal deliberations of the Court.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

A surprising factoid in a bad election for the party.

Republicans hold narrow leads for Governor and Senator but . . . .

Open Forum for election chatter.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

There are too many variables to make generalized calculations.

Bargaining continues amidst poisoning and mass killing.

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

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

The serendipitous day off may soon be a thing of the past.

Two members of the presidential commission reach the conclusion that expansion is needed.

A blast from the past.

The President is in open defiance of the Supreme Court.

It’s not perfect but it beats our usual approach to picking winners and losers.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

My contribution to a continuing debate.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

Mostly about how not to do it.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

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

Any “fair” drawing of districts will yield a GOP advantage over time.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

All the states have been called.

Revisiting predictions about what would happen if what has happened happened.

More good news for Biden.

Joementum.

Because sometimes a comment starts to become a post.

Yet another grim milestone.

Or just a bump in the road?

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

Could the fevered dream really come true?

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.