Outside the Beltway

The justices declined to review a bizarre 4th Circuit decision.

The Supreme Court sided with an anti-gay website designer.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are happy. But one man is.

A 5-4 ruling overturns a unanimous decision from 1985.

A sensible compromise on a controversial issue.

A tough map for the Democrats.

The market for competent centrists.

“You can’t be against everything.”

We charge patients way more than other counties.

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

With a win in Nevada, the party will retain at least 50 seats.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

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.