Outside the Beltway

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

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

One of these things is not like the other.

Here we go again . . . .

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

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

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.

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

It’s Manchin-approved.

Apparently, getting her elected President is not a high enough priority in the Biden White House.

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.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

The enigmatic Senator is a world-class attention seeker.

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

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

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

The Catch-22 of passing a massive spending bill in an undemocratic system.

More machinations from the mischievous mining mouthpiece.

He beats the alternative.

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

Details are quite scant at the moment.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

The piling on continues.

We’re all apes. And some are willfully stupid about their public duties.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

The long shift of population from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt continues—with the unusual exception of California.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

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 Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

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

Too little, too late.

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

An American hero is gone.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.