Outside the Beltway

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

Republicans are starting to talk about immigration reform, but do they really mean it?

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

How Obama can have a 75 percent chance of winning an election despite being essentially tied in the polls:

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

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

The arguments in favor of major changes in the way we elect our President are unpersuasive.

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

John Sides argues that, contrary to popular conception, undecided voters are neither morons nor non-partisan.

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

Looking to Federalist 68.

Of course, these voters are walled off from the process, so they don’t matter.

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

Yet another in a long line of critiques of the electoral college.

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.

Should people be able to vote six weeks before Election Day?

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?

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

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.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

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

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

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