Outside the Beltway

Two polls indicate that most Americans oppose the President’s latest moves on Syria. This makes sense considering actual policy there seems to be entirely incoherent.

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

Even if you trust the current occupant of the White House to exercise the powers granted to the agencies operating in secret under him, do you trust all future Presidents?

A George W. Bush renaissance? Not exactly.

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

In what may be the worst sales pitch in history, President Obama says, “”If people don’t trust the executive branch, and also congress and the judicial branch, then we’re going to have some problems here.”

The jobs news in May was good, but far from great.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

The Governor of Massachusetts decided to celebrate a bit after Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev was captured.

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

President Obama threw down a gauntlet today in the form of a trio of Judicial nominations.

Several top Administration officials have secret email addresses, the Associated Press reports.

Mitt Romney returns from the political graveyard.

The former Republican Senator and current Independent governor has come full circle.

When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

Michael Kinsley contends “Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster.”

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.

Debunking a conservative myth that has arisen in connection the Benghazi story.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?