Outside the Beltway

Rand Paul calls Mitt Romney out over his comments about Presidential War Powers.

President Obama’s immigration policy shift is legal, it’s good policy, but bypassing Congress won’t solve our immigration problems.

Republican reaction to the President’s immigration policy announcement has been relatively muted, and it’s likely to stay that way.

Frustrated by its inability to get laws passed through Congress, the Obama administration has decided to stop following laws already passed by Congress.

If the Department of Justice does not fully comply with Congressional subpoenas, then there seems to be no alternative other than holding the Attorney General in contempt.

Are infrastructure projects the key to turning around the economy? Not really.

There is a disturbing trend in Western nations toward enforcement of laws against “insulting” religions.

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

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

The Catholic Church has fired a legal shot across the bow of the Affordable Care Act.

Here’s why nobody in Washington will allow the Bush Tax Cuts to expire.

In office less than a day, Francois Hollande has already been forced to admit he can’t withdraw French forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

Did Joe Biden misspeak, or drop a hint that he shouldn’t have?

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

Welcome to today’s Outrage Of The Day

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

Facts are stubborn things.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice confirms that it supports Marbury v. Madison

The 5th Circuit has demanded a report from the president on his views about the power of the courts.

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.

This morning, the Justices pondered the fate of the PPACA if they strike down the individual mandate.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.