Outside the Beltway

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

Most Americans have never even heard of it.

An opportunity for unity and a restoration of normal order.

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

A startling number than may understate the problem.

The story played out just as we all thought it would.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

We may be a little closer to ending the tyranny of the Electoral College.

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

I couldn’t help myself.

Definitions are fun, right?

The problem is real.

Some upgrade-related wonkiness.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Legitimacy hangs in the balance.

Institutional reform is necessary, but we can’t accomplish much in the face of tribalism.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

It’s just not immediate.

Telecommuting has taken a bite out of an industry built on commuting.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

Yet another grim milestone.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

Another grim milestone.

Why the ‘moral majority’ is willing to tolerate so much immorality from their leader.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

If the current polls are right, the race will be all but over in five days.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

The precise distribution of 41 measly delegates is now known. Unless there’s a recount.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The media coverage continues on script.

Sad news from the conservative talk icon.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

What difference at this point does it make?

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

A political scientist argues that college-educated intellectuals are doing politics wrong.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

A new poll seems to indicate that Democratic voters aren’t exactly jumping on the Mike Bloomberg train.

Expanding on yesterday afternoon’s post.

I was a guest on the Challenging Opinions podcast.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.