Outside the Beltway

He’s back.

A brutal assessment of Chris Christie’s presidential chances.

The president is the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces. He’s not commander-in-chief of the United States.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

Despite the ongoing email controversy, Hillary Clinton remains well positioned heading into 2016.

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

Hillary Clinton addressed the week-long email controversy, but her explanations only raised new questions.

Don’t say “climate change” or “global warming” if you work for Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection.

Senate Republicans have done more harm to the goal of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons than they have done good.

Amateurish? Condescending? Yes. Treasonous? No.

Thinking about comparative American struggles against tyranny.

Sadly whenever Alabama is first at something (save perhaps in football) it is never for something good.

What reporters see as stonewalling may be shrewd clock management.

A powerful Democratic Senator looks like he’s about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

Another tone deaf action from leading Republicans.

February’s jobs report came in stronger than analysts expected, but wage growth remains stubbornly stagnant.

A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.

Once again, the Supreme Court appears to be sharply divided on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Unsurprisingly, Darren Wilson will not face federal charges in connection with the shooting of Michael Brown.

Ben Carson is inching closer to running for President, and he’s continuing to pander to the most extreme elements of the Republican Party.

As expected, Republicans have caved in the showdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Now that they control all of Congress, some Republicans are suddenly deciding that the filibuster should be repealed.

Hillary Clinton’s use of email while Secretary of State pretty much violated every Federal law and regulation on the issue.

The Supreme Court seems likely to strike down state laws that take redistricting completely out of the hands of state legislatures.

Just as his political star is rising among conservatives, Scott Walker is walking back his previous support for immigration reform.

Rand Paul is carrying on a family tradition, winning the CPAC straw poll won many times by his father Ron.

Another lesson in incompetence in governing from House Republicans.

Polling indicates that the American public opposes the GOP position on DHS funding, but that’s unlikely to change many minds on Capitol Hill.

A theme that just won’t go away.

As expected, President Obama has vetoed the bill that would have authorized the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.

With three days to go, there are signs the GOP is ready to give up on its showdown over DHS funding.

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

Decision rules matter.

A new poll of 2016 primary voters shows that even Republicans are coming to accept that gays and lesbians should have the right to get married.

By a wide margin Americans think it was wrong of the GOP to invite Israel’s Prime Minister to speak to Congress.

A Federal Judge has issued a temporary halt to the Obama Administration’s deferred deportation program, but appeals can be expected.

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

Lest there be any doubt, Barbara Bush wouldn’t mind a third POTUS in the family.

Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown (D) will become the first openly bisexual governor in U.S. history when Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) resigns Wednesday

The Kentucky Senator and medical doctor claims an undergraduate degree he doesn’t have.