Outside the Beltway

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

Rand Paul has changed position on several foreign policy issues, but he doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.

The former Florida Governor announced that he’s taking the first step towards running for president in 2016.

Rick Santorum looks to be getting ready to hit the campaign trail again, but it’s doubtful he can find appeal beyond the religious conservatives who supported him in 2012.

The GOP donor class would like the 2016 race to be short and sweet, but that’s unlikely to happen.

After a disastrous campaign in 2012, Texas Governor Rick Perry appears to be gearing up for a new run for the White House in 2016, but questions remain.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to tell people they’re just “average Americans,” but they’re lying and the American people seem to have figured out that they’re lying.

CNN’s effort to bring back a show that had outlived its prime years ago has, predictably, failed.

Could the GOP offer a positive governing agenda if they controlled Congress?

Some on the left are saying that Hillary Clinton isn’t doing enough to help Democrats in 2014.

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

One of the longest serving Members of Congress just got his political career saved.

Boehner ready to pack it in?

Is the GOP headed down a road that leads to yet another doomed impeachment and trial?

An award for breaking a campaign promise.

Good news for Republicans.

It might not be pretty.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

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

Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.

Does your kid qualify for subsidized lunch? One candidate for Senate in Georgia wants to put them to work.

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