Outside the Beltway

We’re having trouble counting Hispanics. Should we be trying?

It’s time to end this absurd annual spectacle.

Obama To Hold Google+ Hangout After State Of The Union; Biden to take gun questions from Field & Stream.

Employers have to provide health coverage for those who work 30 hours a week. Guess what?

Pretending like the Bush administration never happened is a problem for the GOP.

The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

A positive political climate for immigration reform.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Some musing on guns: who uses them, how, and why.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called a controversial NRA claim “ridiculous.”

Christina Hoff Summers argues that America needs to fix the way we educate boys.

Andrew Bacevich bemoans the social impact of the all-volunteer force.

Is America’s focus on defense weakening the country?

Really, more evidence he should be ignored in general.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

The “I” in DIA apparently does not stand for Intelligence.