Outside the Beltway

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

The Needle is Broken

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

The race is returning to expectation.

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

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

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

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

They’re spending millions on issue ads in the wake of Dobbs.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Here we go again . . . .

We live in a bizarre timeline.

Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 11 states.

So, what now?

Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban may or may not be back in effect.

Concerned no more, Senator Collins is now dismayed that she was misled.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

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).

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

In other news, there’s gambling going on at Casablanca.

The role of American political institutions.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

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

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

It’s not compelling.

What happens if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade?

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

Regardless of one’s views on abortion, the enforcement provision in the new Texas law should be concerning.

The Lone Star State has enacted some peculiar new laws.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A new poll shows meaningful shifts in public attitudes.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

A case that should never have made it to the Supreme Court.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a Mississippi law that banned nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

A Federal District court Judge in Alabama has blocked implementation of that state’s latest attempt to challenge Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court returns to work today with a significant number of high-profile cases on its docket.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

Increased focus on conservative efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade appears to be rallying public support for abortion rights.

The Vermont Senator has a bizarre alternative to court packing.