Outside the Beltway

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

A space shuttle lifted off for the last time on Friday, and some people seem to think its the beginning of the end of America.

It was a largely fruitless weekend in the debt negotiations.

It’s still politics as usual in Washington.

While unemployment remains stubbornly high, Washington is spending its time fighting over the budget deficit

The White House would really appreciate it if you didn’t pay attention to all that bad economic news.

The White House has apparently rejected using a tortured interpretation of the 14th Amendment to deal with the debt ceiling debate.

Judging by the June jobs report, there’s no economic recovery coming in the near future.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

President Obama smiled as he signed the 2009 stimulus into law, but the results aren’t anything to smile about.

Whatever happened to the GOP’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act?

Will Joe Biden be on the podium with Barack Obama at the 2012 Democratic convention, or will there be a new running mate?

220 years in, we lack basic agreement about what the United States Constitution does

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

The Ronald Reagan that Republicans lionize is very different from the one who actually served as 40th President of the United States.

Our good ally Pakistan has publicly ordered us to leave a base used for “covert” CIA drone attacks.

Not exactly an example of moral leadership.

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

Does a little known provision in the 14th Amendment make the entire debt ceiling debate irrelevant?

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

A Tea Party favorite gets asked a tough question,and a Fox News host finds himself forced to apologize.

Should President Obama do whatever General Petraeus wants in Afghanistan?

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

President Obama came close to endorsing same-sex marriage last night, but stopped short yet again

A few Republicans have picked up on John McCain’s criticism of critics of the Libya mission as being “isolationist.”