Outside the Beltway

The American public is increasingly skeptical of foreign adventurism. Why aren’t our political candidates reflecting that?

Wives have played key roles in several GOP nomination trajectories this year. Newt Gingrich appears to be the latest example.

Do ideologically radical professors impose their biases on their students?

Hillary Clinton is actively lobbying to be the next president of the World Bank, Reuters reports.

Clearly there’s a large ambiguity in the Constitutional gap between the two separate war-related powers of Congress and the Executive. The WPA can be seen as an attempt to resolve it but can’t if it’s unconstitutional.

Texas A&M professor finds serious flaws in college faculty productivity study.

Your major matters. But not as much as simply having a degree.

Is the college curriculum too heavy in humanities and social sciences and too light on science and mathematics?

There’s precedent for this sort of thing happening and the candidate making the comeback. And you don’t have to go back too far.

Perhaps understandably, the Anthony Weiner incident seems to have caused some politicians to rethink their Twitter strategy.

Newt Gingrich’s entire senior presidential staff has resigned.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.

As with most of the other issues facing us, our political conversation about climate change and what to do about it basically just involves yelling at each other.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

Here’s another way that Romney will be called a RINO.

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?

Actor Alec Baldwin may run for mayor of New York.

Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is several weeks pregnant and desperately trying to salvage their marriage and his career.

A new study finds that college tuition costs could be cut in half if lazy professors got off their butts.

Pawlenty proposes the “Google test.”

Don’t want to have embarrassing photos of your private parts on the Internet? Here’s some advice.

It was a good day in Court for opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

Tim Pawlenty’s new fiscal plan isn’t very grounded in reality.

Some people still think Mitt Romney’s religion is a relevant issue.

How insurance makes health care more expensive

Steve Clemons is taking his talents to The Atlantic