Outside the Beltway

What is Donald Trump up to? Only he seems to know for sure.

An increasing number of bright observers are questioning the notion that everyone needs to go to college.

A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.

Everywhere you turn, people are asking for money.

Tax compliance employs more workers than Wal-Mart, UPS, McDonalds, IBM, and Citigroup — combined.

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

Sarah Palin was back speaking to a Tea Party crowd yesterday, but it just doesn’t seem like matters anymore.

One of the Tea Party movement’s favorite Senators used the dreaded c-word.

With all the birther talk these days, it’s probably time to question whether we even need the “natural born citizen” rule anymore.

It may be time to change rules keeping women out of combat roles. But “fairness” isn’t the right question.

David Simon on the drug war, the underclass, and America’s seamy underbelly.

Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

Hard as it is to believe, it’s been two decades since Tim Berners-Lee published the first website. They look a wee bit different these days.

President Obama’s signing statement on the allocation of funds to Presidential “czars” sets a potentially dangerous Constitutional precedent.

Once again, President Obama has ignored Candidate Obama’s promises to reign in the Presidential powers assumed by George W. Bush.

Australia is the only major country with lower tax rates than the USA.

Presidential wannabe Jon Huntsman wrote some embarrassing letters about President Obama and the Clintons.

Francis Fukuyama: “In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create.”

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

While the pace of modern life is in many ways faster than ever, the golden age of speed was decades ago.

A version of a piece I wrote Wednesday, titled “NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated,” has finally been published at Foreign Policy under the title “Back in the Saddle: How Libya Helped NATO Get Its Groove Back.”

In all honesty, much of what is coming out of the mouths of self-described conservatives is actually pretty darn radical.

We’re approaching the point where those job approval numbers start to matter, and President Obama’s are heading down again.

Even libertarians aren’t all that impressed with the effort to bring Ayn Rand’s magnum opus to the big screen.

For the first time, Donald Trump is leading a poll for the GOP 2012 nomination. That’s bad news for the GOP.