Outside the Beltway

My latest for The Atlantic explains, “Why We Should Be Glad the Haditha Massacre Marine Got No Jail Time.”

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

Why are all the candidates for president so awful?

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

People who ought to know better are now concocting absurd scenarios to get around a really weak Republican presidential field.

This year’s Iowa Caucuses stand as Exhibit A for an argument against Iowa being first in the nation.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

A record number of Americans don’t consider themselves a member of either party.

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

Rick Santorum’s good day in Iowa doesn’t change the truth about his campaign.

Rick Santorum’s foreign policy positions are troubling in many respects.

Since the adoption of the current rules for delegate allocations only twice has either party nominated someone who did not win either IA or NH.

For a guy who says he dislikes “activist judges,” Rick Perry sure wants a certain Federal Judge in Virginia to be an activist.

Has Iowa “blown its special claim as the first state” in the nomination process? No, it never had any special claim in the first place.

Several candidates did not submit a completed application on time to qualify for Virginia’s Republican primary ballot.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Gingrich has some pretty radical ideas about separation of powers.

There is a fundamental problem with the feedback loop in American politics.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Paul Krugman’s latest column, “Depression and Democracy,” is simply bizarre.

No, some mythical candidate will not swoop in and save the day for the Republican Party.

A revealing quote and some musing on Newt’s consistency.

Is technology making retail politics less important?

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

How did Republicans get in this mess?

Public opinion on the Occupy movement has turned increasingly sour.

Apparently, we should be more like China. Or something.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

From across the pond, an observation that the way we pick Presidents isn’t really that bad after all.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

The Electoral College doesn’t matter in the way pundits think it does.

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.