Outside the Beltway

Someone has stepped up to challenge former President Trump.

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

The idiocy of Iowa and New Hampshire having outsized influence on who is elected President may be ending.

Democrats meet this week to set the 2024 primary calendar.

Opponents lose at the district and SCOTUS level in opening salvos.

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

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

States emboldened by Dobbs are testing just how far the Supreme Court will let them go.

With the government throwing its hands up, it’s now up to the citizenry.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

It’s not all about Trump.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

We can only hope.

It would appear to be the case.

The front-runner was indeed the pick

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

Did you know that the elephant population has tripled over the last six months?

Momentum for ending an undemocratic anachronism is building.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

The legendary football player and coach is gone at 77.

Violence, masculinity, and American politics.

Resolving the legal issues will take time we don’t have.

Officers are under enormous pressure–including from the Federal government–to write tickets.

A sign of our times.

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

Another R/D cleavage?

The Southeast has been hit especially hard.

There’s no voting in baseball.

Many states are moving to a first come, first served basis for COVID shots.

Nonhierarchical parties strike again.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

Democrats are already jockeying to influence President Biden’s pick should a vacancy arise.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

The man still can’t get out of his own way.

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

Too little, too late.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

A myriad of possible explanations.

Predicting a Biden wave.

A FiveThirtyEight-inspired message from the Democrats doesn’t compute.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.