Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton remains at the top of the polls, but she’s got at least one big vulnerability.

Trying to make some sense out of a week of outrage.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

A Reuters political blogger has set tongues wagging about the possibility another First Lady might run for the U.S. Senate.

Good intentions and good results aside, the President’s disrespect for the Rule Of Law should concern everyone.

Looking back at the first round and forward to the second.

Does the office of Vice-President serve any useful purpose anymore?

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is a name we’re likely to be seeing in the news for some time to come.

Public cynicism about politics at its very best.

Allen West seems to think that God might want him to run for President. Unfortunately for Mr. West, so does Ben Carson.

Not every tragedy can be resolved with a military response.

The junior Senator from Florida drops some hints.

An award for breaking a campaign promise.

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

A grim new poll for the President and his Democratic allies.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

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.