Outside the Beltway

Could a coin like this solve the looming debt ceiling crisis?

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

Why do natural disasters cause the news media to act so stupidly?

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

No, the electoral college does not encourage the candidates to pay special attention to the small states.

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.

Polling racial attitudes and its linkage to support fro voter ID laws.

A new study suggests that taxing millionaires sends millionaires to somewhere that doesn’t tax millionaires.

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

When will Santorum bow to the inevitable?

Rick Santorum won Louisiana last night, but he’s still going to lose the race for the nomination.

The results of Louisiana’s primary mean a lot less than the pundits will tell you they do.

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

After having so much influence in 2010, the Tea Party is finding itself adrift in the search for a Republican nominee in 2012.

Facing his own Tea Party challenge, Richard Lugar reminds Republicans of an uncomfortable truth.

What does the Cain candidacy say about the contemporary GOP?

It was clear from the start that “Cash For Clunkers” was a bad idea.

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

Workers account for 80% of the Postal Service budget vs. 53% at UPS and 32% at FedEx.

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Stephen Bainbridge has a new e-book out about a 25-year-old Delaware Supreme Court case.

The race for the GOP nomination is taking shape.

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

Where’s the line when a public figure interacts with a teenage fan?

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

Nor, it would seem, are really tired clichés.

William Easterly identifies the concept of the negative highway, inconvenient connections between Interstate highways seemingly created for the sole purpose of enticing people to shop at local businesses.