Outside the Beltway

The filibuster is now so commonplace that it’s baked into the expectations.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

The GOP’s decision to filibuster the Senate Gun Control Bill doesn’t make a lot of political sense.

A Federal Judge has stepped into a Culture War minefield, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.

90 percent of Americans support background checks for gun purchases. They are unlikely to be enacted into law.

The Judicial Confirmation process needs to be fixed.

The D.C. Circuit now has four vacancies out of eleven seats.

Rand Paul’s filibuster has made him a darling among conservatives but it may not last.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

Mr. Paul Goes To Washington.

A bit of musing on parties, elections, and governance,

The Hagel confirmation, like Obama’s election, was big news to some avid news consumers.

t’s been more than two-and-a half years since the United States passed major legislation.

Here we go again.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

Once again, the filibuster survives. Nobody should be surprised.

Once again, Harry Reid is pursuing a far less ambitious filibuster reform package than originally threatened.

Presidential honeymoons aren’t what they used to be, and President Obama’s second term honeymoon isn’t likely to last very long.

You can’t always get what you want.

Representative democracy is a process of delegation of power to agents who act on behalf of citizens. The process of delegation matters.

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

With less than a week left, the odds of a deal to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” seem longer than ever.