Outside the Beltway

Every vote counted, with refreshing results.

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

This kind of “analysis” drives me nuts

It boils down to NV or GA.

A thought inspired by the PA Senate race.

And a reminder of the role of political parties.

Voting isn’t just about candidates.

American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

More ugly revelations about the football hero turned politician.

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).

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

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

A illustration from the Senate race in Georgia.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

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

A twist on an evergreen debate.

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

The days of unanimous votes are long behind us.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

It’s Manchin-approved.

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

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

The 83-year-old Justice is playing a dangerous game.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

Senator Romney and the latest edition of the senatorial pro-filibuster op/ed.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

The West Virginia Senator is the epicenter of contemporary American politics.

It does not create better deliberation.

Canada has more parties than the US, but still suffers representation problems due to FPTP elections.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

More machinations from the mischievous mining mouthpiece.

He beats the alternative.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.