Outside the Beltway

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.

How the West Virginia Democrat came to vote for the stimulus bill.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

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.

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

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

Amending the Constitutional through unconstitutional means is a very bad idea.

As we approach the new year, the virus is at its peak.

Too little, too late.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

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

The popular former governor wants another crack at it.

An American hero is gone.

He seems to have taken his ball and gone home.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

A myriad of possible explanations.

A rather remarkable milestone in that it’s coming so late.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

A surprisingly uneventful experience.

Predicting a Biden wave.

Rethinking what qualities we should be looking for in Supreme Court Justices.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Not the flu.

They are standing by as ordered.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

An interesting but unlikely-to-pass bill is about to be introduced.

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

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

Confusing advice is unlikely to be heeded.

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

It’s just not immediate.

Despite hope for a vaccine, officials are canceling large events months in advance.

A majority of Americans of every sex, race, education, income, or region do the right thing. With one exception.

The hopes of football in the fall are fading fast.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

Are Republicans eschewing absentee voting?

A controversial monument in Little Italy has been destroyed.

Contra the CDC, the AAP says getting kids to class outweighs the modest risk of their catching COVID-19.

Parents can’t homeschool their kids and hold down jobs indefinitely.