Outside the Beltway

Trayvon Martin’s autopsy shows injuries to his knuckles, which bolsters George Zimmerman’s claim that there was a fight, a Florida television station reports.

The battle lines are being drawn for another showdown over the debt ceiling.

Marriage has always been an evolving institution.

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

In office less than a day, Francois Hollande has already been forced to admit he can’t withdraw French forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

Some Republicans see the light on same-sex marriage. Whether the party will listen is another question.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

Harry Reid is apparently regretting not going forward with filibuster reform in January 2011.

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.