Outside the Beltway

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the GOP finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

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

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

The D.C. Circuit now has four vacancies out of eleven seats.

Frustrated Republican health care staffers are leaving the Hill for lucrative positions on K Street.

Institutional dynamics in the US constitutional system are the key to undertstanding our current predicament.

It’s time to end this absurd annual spectacle.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

We really don’t need to be treating Inauguration Day like it’s the coronation of a new King.

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

The White House has shot down an idea that never deserved to be taken seriously.

The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.

The Speaker’s version of what went down during the negotiations does not make the Speaker look good.

From a political point of view, the GOP’s position on taxes makes no sense at all.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

The truth behind today’s unemployment numbers.

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

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

Not as much learning going on as one might like, to be honest.

A quick post on a pet peeve.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Believing the maker/taker dichotomy.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Obama thinks he has a mandate to raise taxes on high earners. Republicans think they have a mandate to stop him.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

Republicans are starting to talk about immigration reform, but do they really mean it?

I just came across Peggy Noonan’s pre-election column. It is quite illustrative.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

The ink is barely dry on Barack Obama’s victory and some conservatives are already focusing blame on the Governor of New Jersey.