Outside the Beltway

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

Marriage has always been an evolving institution.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

Facts are stubborn things.

Hugo Chavez has built a state on cronyism.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

Rick Santorum is at the front of a brigade that wants to re-fight the sexual revolution. They’ll lose.

Rick Santorum would do well to listen to the words of the last Catholic to be President of the United States.

The Obama Administration introduced a corporate tax reform plan that doesn’t go nearly far enough.

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

The Birthers have suffered yet another totally predictable loss in Court.

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

Conservatives seem to believe that Newt Gingrich can beat Barack Obama merely by debating him. They are delusional.

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

Why does government regulate how long some people work and not others?

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Current events have underscored who holds political power in Egypt in the post-Mubarak era.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.

The protesters have returned to Tahrir Square, and so has the violence.

Herman Cain has either doubled down on his foreign policy ignorance or proven himself a man of great nuance.

Is public dissatisfaction with Obama also a cry for a conservative revolution?

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

As the season changes, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems destined to peter out.

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

Elizabeth Warren has a deeply flawed view of our social contract.