Outside the Beltway

Todd Akin says he will continue to be the Republican nominee for United States Senate from Missouri.

Todd Akin says he’s staying in the race, but his party is abandoning him.

National Republicans aren’t at all thrilled with Todd Akin right now.

While Republicans talk about family values, Chuck Schumer is busy promoting them one staffer at a time.

The weird tale of Thad McCotter’s nominating petitions just got a heck of a lot weirder.

In calling for the sequestration cuts to be delayed, Republicans are demonstrating their lack of seriousness on the issue of fiscal responsibility.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

The recent call by many on the right for Mitt Romney to select Paul Ryan as his running mate is puzzling.

While Washington dithers, business owners are starting to worry.

The United States Congress can still work together to pander before election season.

Marco Rubio wants to prevent these young women, and other Olympic medal winners, from paying taxes. It’s a dumb idea.

Publishing unsubstantiated rumor is not journalism.

Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.

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

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

Michele Bachmann and several other Members of Congress are engaging in the despicable tactics of Joe McCarthy.

Provisions in the Affordable Care Act may cause the entire statutory scheme to collapse.

Virginia could be the state that decides who controls the United States Government.

The people trying to undo the Defense Budget sequestration cuts are making some pretty weak arguments.

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.

Congress seems to have gotten the message the Supreme Court sent last month about the Stolen Valor Act.