Outside the Beltway

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

Parties do not own voters, and the job of campaigns is to attract voters.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

Mitch McConnell’s hopes to become Senate Majority Leader could hinge on what happens in his own state and in Georgia.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

Same-sex marriage remains the law of the land in one of the most conservative states in the nation, at least unless the Supreme Court says otherwise.

Some recent political science on the subject.

There is far less overlap between the two parties in the House–and the shift has been empirically rightward.

If the Syrian civil war is like other civil wars, it’s not ending any time soon.

The argument that the Roberts Court has been overly “activist” does not hold up to examination.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

The American taxpayer spent a lot of money today paying their employees not to work.

One inmate’s view of the asylum.

An Example of How Institutions Matter.

The award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post:

Some thoughts on reform.

Some thoughts on the ongoing situation in Egypt.

The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.

My latest for The National Interest, “Kenneth Waltz’s Crucial Logic,” has posted.

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

It would be nice if columnists for major newspapers would consult political science, rather than Hollywood, for their understanding of our system.

The American people no longer seem to care if their political leaders are divorced.

Robert Farley takes a shot across the bow at the academy from the pages of one of his field’s most prestigious journals.

President Obama’s job approval numbers have fallen off from their post-election highs. But, does it matter?

A theory on why Benghazi will not die as a political issue.

The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

Harvard’s pet conservative offers a critique of the Democratic Party that reads like something from the OTB comments section.

Thinking can be an uncomfortable exercise.

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

More griping about poor analysis.