Outside the Beltway

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

The Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of a case in which Indiana’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood had been blocked by a Federal Court.

For better or worse, the attack in Boston is likely to have an impact on the immigration reform debate.

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, support for the decision is still strong, but the effort to restrict it continues apace.

Norm Ornstein may have written the sillest op-ed of 2012.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

As we approach the fiscal cliff, there are signs that House Republicans may not be as rigid as they were the past two years.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

The nation’s capitol is closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. But the Supreme Court will be reporting for duty.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

Just as we saw in 2008, the conservative base doesn’t want to hear their nominee saying that the President is a basically decent man.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

Over two days of speakers, not a single Republican has mentioned the Tea Party.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

An Atlantic story on veterans returning to college is both poignant and miscast.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.