Outside the Beltway

With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama basically saying the same things about foreign policy, it’s time to take a look at an alternative.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

If the United States and Egypt were Facebook friends, their relationship status would be “It’s Complicated.”

President Obama gave an honest, nuanced answer to a complex question. So, of course, he’s taking it back.

Mitt Romney’s initial response to the attacks in Egypt and Libya displayed a tendency to jump the gun rather than wait for the facts.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

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

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

If you can name at least one of these people, you know more than two-thirds of your fellow citizens.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

The US government has an odd and unproductive view on the concept of talks.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

It would be nice if people who make authoritative decisions had some idea what they are talking about.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

The history of the DREAM Act underscores the significance of the 60-vote Senate.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

In an ideal world, today’s Recall Election in Wisconsin would not even be legally possible.

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

Recall elections in a hyper-partisan atmosphere are not a good thing.

If we taught the Federalist Papers more rigorously would that lead to a shared view of the constitution?

We should want more voters, not less, if we actually value representaitve democracy.

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.

Facts are stubborn things.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.

Dan Drezner declares that “Policy wonks ignore political science journals at their peril.”