Outside the Beltway

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” remarks seem to be hurting him.

Whether Republicans like it or not, Mitt Romney was the best candidate they had in 2012.

The reported Romney “reboot” doesn’t look very impressive.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

Signs are brewing that the Chinese economy is slowing down significantly.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories

The presumptive Republican nominee has sent a strong and welcome signal about his governing philosophy.

The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.

The war in Afghanistan has not been a topic of discussion in the Presidential campaign, but that’s largely because there’s not much left to talk about.

Cover Girl model Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing match.

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Disseting the Romney visit to the UK and musing about the state of GOP foreign policy views.

There are signs that the economy is slowing down so quickly that we may inevitably drift into recession.

The GDP report shows the economy slowed in the second quarter, to the surprise of nobody.

Kids, the President of the United States has a message for you: stop hanging out and get to work.

What happened in 1970 to decouple wages and productivity?

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.

Carbon emissions in the U.S. have declined just as use of natural gas in electricity production has increased. That’s no coincidence.

“The average Canadian has quietly become richer than the average American,” claims a pro-Canada organization.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

Following yesterday’s shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s not going to happen.

David Chan has eaten at more than 6000 Chinese restaurants. He says the best are all in California and most opened in the last decade.

Gas prices are falling nationwide but that’s mostly because the economy kind of stinks.

Another round of economic statistics suggests that we’re unlikely to see any real improvement between now and Election Day.

Rand Paul calls Mitt Romney out over his comments about Presidential War Powers.

President Obama’s immigration policy shift is legal, it’s good policy, but bypassing Congress won’t solve our immigration problems.

Are infrastructure projects the key to turning around the economy? Not really.

The President seems to think the private sector is doing fine. He couldn’t possibly be more wrong.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.