Outside the Beltway

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

Covering the coverage.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

We used to (usually) know the results on Election Night because the outcomes were clearer.

The stand-up comic is gone at 76.

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

It’s easy if you try.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

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

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

They’re just too awful for delicate ears.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

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

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

A great American author is gone at 89.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

The iconic basketball player, coach, and civil rights leader is gone at 88.

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

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

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

It’s not all about Trump.

Basically: Trump is a liar or delusional (perhaps both?).

Chris Stirewalt takes a victory lap.

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

It was yuuuge! And nobody saw it!

You-VAL-dee? You-VAHL-day? Oo-VAHL-deh?

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

Has a franchise that’s always been political gone too far?

For your consideration.

We’re mostly back to “normal” while yet another new strain is surging.

Why would a group that claims it has evidence of ballot harvesting refuse to turn it over?

Has the Internet made us more selfish?

He was clearly willing to subvert the election.