Outside the Beltway

Dharun Ravi was convicted of bias intimidation toward Tyler Clementi. It’s not at all clear that he should have been.

What does it mean to have a limited government?

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

Billionaires have been free to donate as much money as they want to activist groups since the dawn of the Republic.

Yet another sign that international intervention in Syria is most likely never going to happen.

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the right is fighting a losing battle.

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s money guy, probably shouldn’t be his media guy.

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had some advice on Constitution drafting for Egyptians

Sarah Palin isn’t running for President, and she hasn’t officially endorsed anyone, but that hasn’t stopped her from putting her thumb on the scale.

Have Americans divided themselves into what are becoming increasingly different cultures?

My latest for The Atlantic explains, “Why We Should Be Glad the Haditha Massacre Marine Got No Jail Time.”

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

Why are all the candidates for president so awful?

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

For a guy who says he dislikes “activist judges,” Rick Perry sure wants a certain Federal Judge in Virginia to be an activist.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Gingrich has some pretty radical ideas about separation of powers.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

Paul Krugman’s latest column, “Depression and Democracy,” is simply bizarre.

A revealing quote and some musing on Newt’s consistency.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Public opinion on the Occupy movement has turned increasingly sour.

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

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

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

Yes, again with the EC.

There’s no consensus for European-style social democracy or a Randian libertarian paradise.

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