Outside the Beltway

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

President Obama is likely to win re-election while overwhelmingly losing the white vote. Does it matter?

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

There are several circumstances under which we may not know who won the 2012 election for some time after November 6th

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why NATO Should Have Won the Nobel,” is out.

Will conservatives freak out if Romney loses? That’s pretty much guaranteed.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

My latest for The National Interest, “Insanity on the Iran Question,” posted last evening.

With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama basically saying the same things about foreign policy, it’s time to take a look at an alternative.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

If the United States and Egypt were Facebook friends, their relationship status would be “It’s Complicated.”

President Obama gave an honest, nuanced answer to a complex question. So, of course, he’s taking it back.

Mitt Romney’s initial response to the attacks in Egypt and Libya displayed a tendency to jump the gun rather than wait for the facts.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

If you can name at least one of these people, you know more than two-thirds of your fellow citizens.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

The most recent round of national polling seems to show that the negative attacks on Romney are having an impact.

The US government has an odd and unproductive view on the concept of talks.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

It would be nice if people who make authoritative decisions had some idea what they are talking about.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

The history of the DREAM Act underscores the significance of the 60-vote Senate.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.