Outside the Beltway

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been forced out of Kyiv—and possibly out of power entirely.

Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.

Kevin Faulconer proves that Republicans can win in California, but not if they follow the path laid out by the party’s far right wing.

Don’t expect much out of Congress for the rest of 2014, or for the two years after that either.

Another day, another delay

John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.

The President’s sixth State Of The Union Address was fairly low-key.

Republican leaders continue to say stupid things. They may still retake the Senate in November.

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

Is 435 the right number?

Former SecDef Robert Gates is among those who believes that the Iraq War unduly diverted attention from fighting the War On Terror.

There are more self-identified Independents in the country than at any time in the past two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. And it’s mostly at the expense of the GOP.

The Iraqis need to learn to govern themselves, and conservatives blaming President Obama for renewed violence need a history lesson.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

Ted Cruz continues to act as if he hasn’t learned his lessons from the shutdown debacle

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

Another Federal District Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA’s data mining program, this time more favorable to the NSA.

So far at least, the 2014 elections do not appear likely to be a political earthquake on the scale of 2006, 2008, or 2010.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited

The PPACA has had a rough 2013, and 2014 could be even worse.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

David Brooks thinks that the problem with American Government is that the Presidency isn’t strong enough.

Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.

The Tea Party hit another new polling low, but that really shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

Congressman Steve Stockman’s primary challenge of Senator John Cornyn could be a big deal, or, more likely, it could be a dud.

In 1789, George Washington took office after being elected by only a small portion of the population of the U.S. Does that mean he wasn’t “democratically elected?”

Much like the guy who’s afraid to talk to girls in High School, Republicans don’t seem to know how to talk to women. But their problems are actually bigger than that.

The most important leader to come out of Africa in the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of history, has died.

Millenials don’t seem very concerned about signing up for ObamaCare, and they’re not very thrilled with Obama at the moment either.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

The Obama White House dropped some big news as everyone headed out of town.

The Generic Congressional Ballot has shifted again, but how long will this trend last?

We have a certified “winner” in the Virginia Attorney General’s race, but where it heads from here is still up in the air.