Outside the Beltway

Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner. Four words most people never thought they’d see together.

We’re running out of excuses.

The former pizza executive is a smart guy. But he’s not fit to run the country.

My latest for The Atlantic: “Some Reasons Not to Worry About Republican Foreign Policy Craziness”

Public opinion on the Occupy movement has turned increasingly sour.

Apparently, we should be more like China. Or something.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

From across the pond, an observation that the way we pick Presidents isn’t really that bad after all.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign has never really gotten off the ground. Will conservatives start taking him more seriously?

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.

Last night, most of the leading Republican candidates for President acted as if Europe was on another planet.

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.

Is it time to just admit that the good old days are over?

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

Like his tax plan, Herman Cain’s immigration plan is not serious.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

The key to my understanding of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy rollout is the assumption “this is fundamentally a campaign document rather than a governing platform.”

American has real economic and social problems. But the solution in on Capitol Hill, not Wall Street.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

Are the worries about China overtaking the United States realistic?

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

Elizabeth Warren has a deeply flawed view of our social contract.

Better or worse?

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

Much of politics is visceral rather than intellectual.

If you’re interested in knowing how the candidates would handle a foreign policy crisis, last night’s debate was mostly unhelpful.

A new poll shows that Americans are starting to look East.

America is discovering that throwing money at an industry in the hope it will create jobs doesn’t work.

There were eight people on the stage last night, but the GOP field has narrowed significantly.

Mitt Romney’s jobs plan is detailed, but it doesn’t seem to be impressing anyone.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Do the less attractive deserve legal protection? One University Of Texas Profess thinks so.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.