Outside the Beltway

Accusations of blame are already being tossed around about why Republicans lost in Virginia, and they mirror a broader debate in the Republican Party nationally.

Chris Christie did as well as expected last night, but that’s just the beginning.

The race for Virginia Governor turned out to be much closer than many predicted, but that should not be a surprise.

Polls in Virginia don’t open for another 48 hours or so, but the end result has become fairly apparent when you look at the polls.

Looking at Chris Christie as he interacts with voters in New Jersey offers a glimpse of just how he could succeed in a 2016 GOP nomination fight.

A partial setback for the pro-life crowd out of Texas.

With debate season over, it’s looking less and less likely that Virginia Republicans will be able to hold back the Democrats on November 5th.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has endorsed “none of the above” for governor of Virginia.

Absent an unlikely major change, it looks like the Democrats will win the Governor’s race in Virginia

The Virginia Governor’s race may be slipping too far for Republicans to pull off a victory.

Can differences in media coverage of two unrelated filibusters be explained solely by media bias?

McAuliffe pulling away?

Once, against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it clear she isn’t going anywhere.

The architect of President Obama’s re-election campaign is going to work for the Tories.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Potential trouble for Virginia’s Republican nominee for Governor.

Texas has become the latest state to attempt to restrict abortion rights, and North Carolina isn’t far behind.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around any more.

Forget about the budget deficit and spending. The Tea Party apparently now considers stopping immigration reform to be its most important task.

The Texas Legislature is putting up its controversial abortion bill again, but don’t expect things do end the way they did last week.

Some really bad advice for the GOP.

A thirteen hour filibuster by Wendy Davis ran out the clock on a special session of the Texas legislature, apparently defeating an abortion bill that passed 19-10 after time expired.

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

Scott Walker could be the GOP’s surprise candidate in 2016.

Why won’t the “women don’t get pregnant from rape” meme die?

The Administration has accepted reality in its fight against a ruling that made the “morning after” pill available regardless of age.

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

Homicide rates are on pace to be lower than they were at the start of the 20th Century.

Justice Ginsburg made some interesting comments about Roe v. Wade recently. Could they be a signal about where the Court is headed on gay marriage?

The rich are getting richer and more politically powerful.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

A mix of media and abortion politics.

Social conservatives are seeing their clout slip away, but there’s not much they can do about it.

A Federal Judge has stepped into a Culture War minefield, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the GOP finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

Habemus Papam