Outside the Beltway

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.

A spate of bad economic news foretells a shift in the campaign for President.

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

There may be only one solution to saving the Euro.

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

The economic statistics aren’t pointing in a very optimistic direction.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

China’s economic engine may be sputtering.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

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

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

The price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

Is the world ready for a post-Kim North Korea?

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

The American economy is so bad that people are reverse migrating to the Third World.

The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”

Facts are stubborn things.

A bill that may become law in Arizona could make your Internet comments a crime.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

Russia is the most significant geopolitical player actively opposing significant American interests.

Mitt Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe.” Is he right?

Russia may be getting more involved in the Syrian conflict.

“Asian” has an entirely different connotation in the UK than it does in the US.

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

The voter ID issue goes on the road.