Outside the Beltway

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

Does the office of Vice-President serve any useful purpose anymore?

A great American writer has passed away.

Tan, rested, ready, Biden in 2016?

The beginnings of a populist challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016?

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.

Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.

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

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

Once again, pretty much everybody hates Congress. However, it’s unclear if that will matter come Election Day.

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

Yesterday saw some of the biggest protests ever to rock Egypt. Where does it go from here?

Rahm Emanuel is reportedly considering a 2016 presidential run. It’s a thin report.

It’s time to end this absurd annual spectacle.

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

We really don’t need to be treating Inauguration Day like it’s the coronation of a new King.

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

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

Jake Tapper is moving to CNN, where he’ll host a daily show and run their political coverage.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.

If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.

Congress and the American people have a choice to make between two not very palatable options.

Two words spoken by a Romney aide have led to a ridiculous firestorm on the right, while the rest of their comments are being ignored.

An overwhelming number of likely voters say President Obama has changed America; most say for the worse. He still leads Romney by 3 points.

Did Ronald Reagan’s impending inauguration help get our hostages released after 444 days?

The conservative columnist argues Republicans should concentrate on winning back the Senate and stopping Obama through 2016.

In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.

If the Right clings to the belief that President Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil, it will likely end up handing the election to him.

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

How likely is it that a GOP Senate would eliminate the filibuster? Not very.

Andy Rooney, best known to recent generations as the cranky old man at the end of “60 Minutes,” has died at 92.