Outside the Beltway

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

The gambling mogul is self-reporting violations of the law against bribing foreign officials.

Would a formal guarantee of Israel’s security deter Iran from whatever nuclear weapons development program it has?

Today, there are many millions of Americans who can tell one Kardashian sister from another, but have no idea that Barack Obama has compiled the worst presidential record since Jimmy Carter.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

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

Romney needs a far better answer to the Bush question.

There’s little evidence that Presidential debates can be game changers.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

Romney supporters seem to want to paint Obama as Carter. This is unlikely to help.

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

The recent;y concluded party conventions are further evidence that the events have largely outlived their usefulness.

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

The front page of Sunday’s NYT profiled Valerie Jarrett, the power behind the throne at the Obama White House.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

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

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

GOP stratgist Alex Castellanos issues a challenge.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.

Examining a history that might have been.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

With four months to go until Election Day, the Obama Campaign was greeted with a very dismal jobs report this morning.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.