Outside the Beltway

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

Even if you trust the current occupant of the White House to exercise the powers granted to the agencies operating in secret under him, do you trust all future Presidents?

A George W. Bush renaissance? Not exactly.

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

The American people aren’t panicking.

Former Justice O’Connor seems to regret the fact that the Supreme Court got involved in the 2000 election. Her regrets are misplaced.

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.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

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

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.