Outside the Beltway

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

Between the polls and the state of the economy, It’s rather obvious why the Obama campaign keeps trying to change the subject.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.

The Romney campaign is trying to shift the narrative.

The Romney campaign went on television to address the Bain issue, but again they just seem to have muddied the water.

Joe Paterno’s legacy is likely to take a lasting and damaging hit when a report on Penn State’s handling of the Sandusky mess is released.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

Scientists have made a major step toward unlocking one of the biggest mysteries of particle physics

There’s very little evidence or logic to support the attacks coming from the right against Chief Justice Roberts.

The crack investigative team at BuzzFeed is living up to its name with a story headlined “Did President Obama Just Make A Blowjob Joke?”

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

Republicans apparently think that re-running the 2008 campaign, just more efficiently or more ruthlessly, will work this time. Here’s why it won’t.

A new book about the President details his marijuana use in High School and at Occidental College.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

The “Clinton-Biden Switcheroo” Scenario is the pundit’s fantasy that will not die.

While the United States has some serious problems with policing, we’re not a police state.

In office less than a day, Francois Hollande has already been forced to admit he can’t withdraw French forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

The next generation search engine may not point to Web pages at all.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

The Wall Street Journal publishes a screed aimed at those about to graduate college.

A series of shocking revelations about Barack Obama’s past have not changed my view of the man who’s been in the White House three-plus years.

The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Rex Huppke reports, “Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”

In an epic Internet scandal, Obama strategist David Axelrod has bought an expensive condo.

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

An lesson from the United Kingdom in the importance of protecting freedom of speech.

Like most endorsements, Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Mitt Romney is unlikely to have a major impact on the race.

Mitt Romney won big in Illinois last night, and moved a big step closer to wrapping this race up.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.