NW DC. 2 bedrooms, top/8th floor and a 10 minute bus ride to DuPont Circle! PRICE CUT: $475k. Open house on Saturday. The monthly fee covers taxes/utilities/etc. Details: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Is the Postal Service doomed? GAO delivered some hard truths to Capitol Hill recently. USPS may be out of cash in less than a year, and its unfunded benefit liabilities and debt were $166 billion at the end of fiscal year 2025(!) kevinrkosar.substack.com/p/is-the-pos...

ICYMI: Are factions in Congress a bad thing? Nope say James Wallner & Soren Dayton. In fact they are a net positive and deserve support. Here is my summary of their intriguing report: www.understandingcongress.org/rebuilding-c...

No, this report was not published by The Onion. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Join it! www.aei.org/policy-areas...

Three Brews and One Wine Worth Your Dollars Plus a few of my favorite books on musicians. beveragesbooksandmore.substack.com

Short answer: Revamp its capacity, improve the incentives set by our elections, and .... How can Congress get its groove back? open.substack.com/pub/highwayt...

"What they fail to recognize is that the public sees right through it all as a childish game of tit-for-tat that turns the Constitution’s oversight role on its head and sends Congress’s public approval rating spiraling downward to single digits." thehill.com/opinion/cong...

“This EO would create a DHS registry of where every American citizen lives & compel Americans to notify the government to update their data every time they move—lest they lose the right to vote by mail. I wonder how many Americans are comfortable with that.”- @kevinrkosar.bsky.social I am …NOT.

Several Thoughts on Trump's Executive Order on the Postal Service and a National Voter Registry List Also: AEI launches the First Branch Society! kevinrkosar.substack.com/p/several-th...

1. The Trump executive order on voting by mail is something. The whole plan rests on the assumption that two federal agencies can match their data on which US citizens live where, and then have the Post Office police the mail based upon those data.

Tomorrow, the War is a new novel by Max Watman. It explores race, gender, power, and freedom. My review of it for the Washington Free Beacon is at freebeacon.com/culture/brot...

The latest issue of Beverages, Books, and More is posted. Enjoy! beveragesbooksandmore.substack.com

When it rains, it pours. I was on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning discussing the financial troubles of the US Postal Service. www.c-span.org/program/wash...

The Postal Service may run out of cash in early 2026. That's a big problem, which I discussed on WAMU/NPR yesterday. the1a.org/segments/the...

I will be on @npr.org at 10 (ET) today discussing the Postal Service's plight. It may run out of money and cease operations early in 2027. :-( theamericanenterprise.com/the-us-posta...

"Reed cut an impressive figure. Measuring over six feet tall and weighing over 300 pounds.... He had a biting wit and a fierce integrity; the latter trait cut against the grain of American politics in 1876." www.understandingcongress.org/icons-of-con...

Oh, good grief. "We probably have some skills that we now need to hire back, quite frankly,” Scott Kupor, the head of the Office of Personnel Management, said... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"Protesters, observers and passersby taken into custody by federal agents were declared terrorists and attackers in hundreds of social-media posts by U.S. officials and departments since the start of the immigration sweeps in cities." www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Here's my new piece for the Examiner: www.understandingcongress.org/congress-att... You can check to see if you or your ancestors have unclaimed money in the US Treasury at unclaimed.org.

My response to a media query re: the GOP response to DJT's claims about tariffs replacing the income tax. Yes, working for Trump can be a bit like being a custodian in an elephant pen. You constantly are having to clean up messes all while trying to avoid being stomped upon.

Informative reading from @kevinrkosar.bsky.social on the toxic and non-toxic Congresses. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

My response to a media query re: the GOP response to DJT's claims about tariffs replacing the income tax. Yes, working for Trump can be a bit like being a custodian in an elephant pen. You constantly are having to clean up messes all while trying to avoid being stomped upon.

I enjoyed speaking Shalanda Young, longtime Hill staffer and Biden admin budget boss. www.aei.org/podcast/why-...

:-) Good comment! "It just might de-polarize the electorate, if the NY Times would draw readers’ attention to the bipartisan efforts and achievements of the “secret Congress” rather than to the efforts and achievements of self-described partisans..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

"At heart the question is: Why do Republicans, many of whom really do believe in limited government and the Constitution’s separation of powers, regularly indulge and even cheer for gross executive overreach?" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Congress sent a spending bill to President Donald Trump in February, providing $78.9 billion in funding to the Education Department. That is about the same amount that taxpayers provided last year.... www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4468...

"Legislators grew tired of feeling like eunuchs in a presidential court" My piece with John Guida in today's New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Let's remember this truth, especially as the hype builds for the State of the Union speech. Https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinrkosar/p/congress-remains-the-heart-of-our?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3j2zfg

"Congress rejected 44 out of Trump’s proposed 46 eliminations. In most cases where Trump sought to zero out an agency’s funding, the agencies were instead given around the same level of funding as in previous years" www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/doges-fina...

Aaaah, nostalgia. But would you actually enjoy drinking the brews your grandpa drank? beveragesbooksandmore.substack.com/p/national-b...

"This legal humiliation is becoming a habit for Trump officials. A grand jury last week refused to rubber stamp U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s attempt to indict Mr. Kelly and the other Members of Congress who taped the video." www.wsj.com/opinion/judg...

"Five years ago today (February 13, 2021), 43 Senate Republicans voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting the January 6 riot in his second impeachment trial... Today, we are living with the consequences of those 43 Republican votes..." www.understandingcongress.org/a-day-that-s...

President's Day reading recommendation: C.W. Goodyear's President Garfield. What a wunderkind Garfield was. A man born to very modest means in Ohio who got an education and rose and rose through hard work and decency. amzn.to/3MsPanC

1. Yesterday I took some items to a local charitable thrift shop. Two of the items ---a 24" flatscreen TV and a collapsible pull cart--- they did not want due to space limitations. Outside the shop I ran into an older guy who was down on his luck.

The reader would be forgiven for concluding that putting someone with a penchant for self-aggrandizement, little knowledge of DHS operations, and questionable management skills was unwise. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Like the Dude, the Department of Education Abides federaleducationpolicy.org/2026/02/12/t...

Usually people post listings for... other reasons, but this is a good one, being sold by a friend, a good guy/wonderful family. I was privileged to be a guest in this extraordinary apartment many times. Balconies on two sides; windows on three. If you know anyone…🙏🏻 www.compass.com/homedetails/...

My latest for the Washington Examiner. Trump signs minibus spending bill with $6.5 billion in earmarks Funds will go to infrastructure repair/replacement, universities for research on semiconductors, fentanyl detection inventions, and cancer cures... www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4441...

"Not to be understated is how much Congress’ dysfunction is a product of bad electoral incentives. Innovations like [ranked choice voting & open primaries] can goad legislators to govern beyond the far right & far left." – @kevinrkosar.bsky.social on how to fix Congress ⬇️ #RankedChoiceVoting

"Americans would be wise to revisit Webster’s speeches for they are a reminder that Congress can be a forum where the public’s views are given expression in a reasoned, eloquent, and uplifting fashion." -Jay Cost www.understandingcongress.org/2026/02/03/i...

Despite all the bragging about DOGE and spending cuts, the US government still booked a $1.8 trillion deficit. My latest for the Examiner. www.understandingcongress.org/2026/01/30/t...

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Delighted to report I have a chapter in this new volume edited by Prof. Brian Alexander, The Folkways of Congress. Learn more at amzn.to/3NKCVD3

An Indy car race around the National Mall. Because nothing says reverence for the Declaration's ringing endorsement of liberty and the rights of man like... vroom-vroom. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/4...

Congress has some real problems. But it is not a hopeless case. We can improve it and revive representative government. What’s Wrong with Congress? share.google/Jbbfa5iuQ3nP...

Really awful government propaganda. She gaslit America. www.thefp.com/p/kristi-noe...

The latest Beverages, Books, and More newsletter is posted. Enclosed are: Quick video reviews of booze books, two drinks recommendations, and word about two spas where you can soak in tubs of beer. Enjoy! beveragesbooksandmore.substack.com/p/quick-vide...

Question: How many press secretaries does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: I don’t have anything on that, but I’ll get back to you. RIP, Steve Hess. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

"DOGE did not reduce federal spending in any meaningful way, because only Congress can durably cut spending. Appropriations were on a continuing resolution throughout much of 2025, which meant Biden-era spending levels remained in place..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...