Outside the Beltway

The April Jobs Report was good, but not exactly anything to write home about.

Arming the Syrian rebels may do nothing more than prolong a seemingly endless war, and pull the United States into a conflict it shouldn’t be involved in.

Is someone who’s only be a Senator for just over 100 days a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2016?

A new GOP would make it very difficult to get a good read on the state of the nation’s economy.

President Obama said today that he wants to move forward with closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay but there’s little he can do on his own.

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

John McCain’s problems in 2008 went far beyond an economic crisis.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

There’s bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill that they don’t want to participate in ObamaCare.

Why does the stock market care if there is an explosion at the White House?

If you want to understand contemporary politics, the last thing you should do is reference an Andrew Sorkin project.

The Boston Marathon bomber must be tried in a court of law.

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

Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The reaction to President Obama’s comments about Kamala Harris raise interesting questions about propriety in the modern world.

One Virginia Republican Member of Congress recently got a lesson in what going against the GOP’s hyperpartisan atmosphere feels like.

Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

President Obama’s job approval numbers have fallen off from their post-election highs. But, does it matter?

Rand Paul’s filibuster has made him a darling among conservatives but it may not last.

The Chairman of the House Budget Committee is proposing a budget that is based largely on fantasy.

Frustrated Republican health care staffers are leaving the Hill for lucrative positions on K Street.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.