Outside the Beltway

What should be the bar? Can it ever be reached?

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

Are plurality winners less legitimate than popular vote losers?

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

He plans to hang on as PM through the fall but likely won’t be able to.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.

It’s the Swiss army knife of profanity.

Because of course he did.

Hillary Clinton edition.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

Oral arguments on the biggest abortion case in decades will be heard today.

A weird new narrative has emerged.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

A meaningless gesture that’s long overdue.

The Watergate conspirator, author, and talk show host was 90.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

The GOP, alas, is not going anywhere.

President Biden told a little fib.

143 at the 11th hour.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

“Now this campaign is over, what is the will of the people? What is our mandate?”

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

Joementum.

If the Democrats win back the White House in November, it’ll be no thanks to men.

The 58-year-old may have a post-presidency unmatched in history.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

A newly filed lawsuit seeks to blunt expected efforts in 2020 to “ratify” the Equal Rights Amendment even though it effectively died nearly 40 years ago.

Despite denials and dismissals, it is clear that being an impeached President is getting under Trump’s skin.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

The Democratic victory in Virginia’s legislative elections has revived hopes for advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment, Even if Virginia does become the 38th state to ratify the measure, though, the actual status of the Amendment is exceedingly unclear.

History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

The liberal notion that people are persuadable through airing of ideas is obsolete.

The evidence piles up.

Some reports are suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might take on the additional role of National Security Adviser.

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?