Outside the Beltway

An American city was essentially shut down today. Was that the right thing to do?

A sensational story, little solid information, and instant analysis are a bad combination

The events in Boston on Monday were tragic, but there was one shining success.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

The economy has been steadily recovering from the Great Recession. But the jobs may never come back.

DOMA’s trip to SCOTUS was practically baked into the legislation.

The Ravens quarterback cashed in after winning the Super Bowl. Now it’s Maryland’s turn.

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

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

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

Once again, there are proposals to eliminate the Dollar Bill. It’s a good idea, which is why it’s not likely to go anywhere.

Was Rick Perry the worst candidate to run in the 2012 cycle? It certainly appears so.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

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

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

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

Mitt Romney has an advantage among self-identified Independents that makes writing him off at this point inadvisable.