Outside the Beltway

The Needle is Broken

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

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

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

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

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

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

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

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

The economic downturn is hitting groups in different ways.

With all of California’s problems solved, Gavin Newsome is doing stunts.

Police and the Punisher Skull

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

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

So, what now?

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

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

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

It’s not all about Trump.

A decades-long decline has ended.

Some thoughts.

A recurring genre about presidents.

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

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

Some GOP governors are taking a stance against Trump.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

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

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

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

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.