Outside the Beltway

Top Republican donors are starting to look at the former Governor of Florida as their candidate in 2016.

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

Nora Caplan-Bricker contends that, “Mike Huckabee Could Be President—If Only He Wanted It.”

My first piece for The Hill, “Crimea is not Armageddon,” posted this morning.

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

A slap on the wrist underscores the bottom-up nature of US parties.

Dr. Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of Eurasian energy and a former colleague at the Atlantic Council, was killed in a bomb blast in Kabul.

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

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

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

After the GOP blocked a series of Obama judicial nominees, Democrats are again threatening to go nuclear on filibuster reform.

The Junior Senator from Kentucky does some re-writing of history.

Looking at Chris Christie as he interacts with voters in New Jersey offers a glimpse of just how he could succeed in a 2016 GOP nomination fight.

The House wasted a day yesterday, now it’s crunch time.

Are these four men our last, best hope for a deal that will end the shutdown and avoid breaching the debt ceiling?

With the House’s proposed deal reaching an impasse, the Senate is now taking center stage.

If nothing else, Ted Cruz’s quixotic mission has succeeded in cementing him in the minds of Republican voters.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

The pioneering journalist David Frost has died, aged 74 years.

Presidents have gotten away with ignoring Congress when it comes to foreign military adventures for a very long time.

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

It may be Rick Santorum’s “turn” but he’s too harsh and extreme to win the nomination.

The president’s 2008 rival has gone from bitter foe to go-to deal broker.

Colonel Bud Day, who earned a Medal of Honor leading Vietnam POWs, had died, aged 88 years.

Lindsey Graham is playing cynical political games with a dangerous part of the world.

Senators John McCain and Carl Levin have demanded answers from General Martin Dempsey on Syria. Can they handle the truth?

As many as 500 convicted al Qaeda terrorists were released Sunday night as part of a surge of violence that has killed thousands since April.

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

There seem to be some signs that defense hawks in the GOP are concerned about Rand Paul’s growing popularity in the party.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

John Boehner clearly wants to see an immigration bill passed this year, but he has a very narrow path to victory.

Two polls indicate that most Americans oppose the President’s latest moves on Syria. This makes sense considering actual policy there seems to be entirely incoherent.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?