Outside the Beltway

Romney 2016? Anything’s possible, but probably not.

Hillary Clinton’s numbers aren’t at the incredibly high levels they used to be, but they were never going to stay that high anyway.

At least on Capitol Hill, the political middle is dead and buried.

The former Florida Governor is talking more openly about running for President than he ever has before.

President Obama has gotten more federal judges confirmed at every level than his predecessor had at this point.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wonders with some irritation “Why Henry Kissinger Never Goes Away.”

Have gubernatorial elections become more nationalized?

Was there ever a more tepid endorsement than “Joe Scarborough for President? Sure, Why Not?”

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

Young voters reject political parties to a greater extent than other voters, but on policy issues they trend Democratic

Casting a bit of cartographic light on the crisis in Ukraine.

The Cold War may be over, but the negative opinions in the U.S. regarding Russia and its leadership seem to have continued.

Going after Hillary Clinton by attacking her husband won’t work.

Some perspective from Sochi.

Tan, rested, ready, Biden in 2016?

John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores his complicated reaction to the first African-American president.

The President’s sixth State Of The Union Address was fairly low-key.

Rand Paul seems to think a 15 year old scandal is relevant to the 2016 Presidential race.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

The beginnings of a populist challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016?

The President is neither messiah nor devil, and the media does the public no favors when it treats him as either.

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

David Brooks thinks that the problem with American Government is that the Presidency isn’t strong enough.

The most important leader to come out of Africa in the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of history, has died.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

A third term for any of these guys? Don’t count on it.

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

A top House Republican suggested today that only Governor’s should be President. His argument has both practical and historical merit.

Things don’t seem to be going well for the Affordable Care Act.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.

Looking at Chris Christie as he interacts with voters in New Jersey offers a glimpse of just how he could succeed in a 2016 GOP nomination fight.

Divided government is the worst political system ever, except for all the others.

An agency has won the Nobel Peace Prize for something that hasn’t happened yet.