Outside the Beltway

End game? Or the potential spark of a wider war?

A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.

There is simply no evidence of the kind of in-person voter impersonation that Voter ID Laws were designed to prevent.

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Our non-competitive political system.

Once again, we are reminded that the fact that people feel strongly about an issue does not mean it’s one that will cause them to get out and vote.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

The American people don’t want to turn those migrant children from Central America away after all.

The Hobby Lobby decision could end up motivating women voters to turn out to vote against Republicans in the fall.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

Turnout to date for the 2014 primaries is at record lows, but its unclear what that tells us about November.

Vladimir Putin has become immensely popular in Russia again, and its not hard to figure out why.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Rather than being a bad thing, negative campaigning is an essential part of our political system.

It appears that the GOP still has a problem communicating with women.

The various factions in Afghanistan have agreed, at least in principle, to alter the nation’s government as part of a deal to resolve election disputes.

Led by Speaker John Boehner, Republican leaders are trying to placate calls for impeachment.

Trying to make sense of a very complicated issue.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

Well this is a unique defense.

It turns out there was much less to that Scott Walker document dump than the press coverage claimed.

If current trends holds, Democratic candidates are going to have a problem turning out voters in November.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

Parties do not own voters, and the job of campaigns is to attract voters.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

After appearing to be at the end of his political career, Thad Cochran has pulled off a surprising victory over his Tea Party backed challenger.

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

As a legal matter, the new allegations against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker don’t amount to much. But, will they impact his bid for re-election.

New Hampshire Republicans still like Mitt Romney.

The House leadership elections turned out about as expected, but we may be doing this all over again in five months.