Outside the Beltway

The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

A Presidential candidate’s health and fitness for office are legitimate issues. When it comes to bringing up Hillary Clinton’s age in the context of 2016,, though, Republicans need to proceed with caution.

Dana Milbank (“Obama’s big immigration mistake”) thinks so.

The party’s loss of Senate control has basically sealed Landrieu’s fate.

At this rate, it’s unlikely the House will file any kind of lawsuit against President Obama until 2015, assuming it ever files anything.

Important numbers in recent polling suggest big problems for Democrats on Tuesday.

A travel ban sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions, though, it becomes far less appealing when you think about the details.

The idea that the N.F.L. “doesn’t pay taxes” is largely false.

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

The TSA is up to its usual shenanigans.

After 200 years, Francis Scott Key’s most famous work may have outlived its usefulness..

The Kansas Senate race is becoming unexpectedly interesting.

Two prominent Republican groups point out the blindingly obvious.

So far at least, there is no evidence that 2014 will be a “wave election.”

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

Does it still make sense to give kids a 10-12 week break every year?

A new poll suggests that Hillary Clinton’s record as Secretary of State doesn’t impress voters as much as she might hope.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

Rick Perry and Rand Paul are highlighting what looks to be a coming battle inside the GOP over foreign policy.

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.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

The Supreme Court’s next term doesn’t start for three months, but it’s becoming clear that the Justices will have to deal with marriage equality when it does.

The sad truth is that the bipartisanship that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 no longer exists today.

After appearing to be at the end of his political career, Thad Cochran has pulled off a surprising victory over his Tea Party backed challenger.

It is now illegal to teach creationism as science in the United Kingdom in any school, public or private, that receives public funding.

Hillary Clinton does not come across well when she tries to play the empathy card.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.

An unknown Tea Party candidate unexpectedly beat the House Leader in today’s GOP primary.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Down to the wire in Mississippi.

In her upcoming book, Hillary Clinton strikes a defiant tone against conservative’s continued interest in the Benghazi attack.