Outside the Beltway

None of the top eight candidates in current polls have made a previous bid for the nomination.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

The final episode airs tonight. How will Matt Weiner will wrap it up?

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

John McCain is not a fan of Code Pink.

The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.

After a disastrous campaign in 2012, Texas Governor Rick Perry appears to be gearing up for a new run for the White House in 2016, but questions remain.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

Chief Justice Roberts lamented recently that an increasingly partisan confirmation process could mean that Justices who have contributed much to the Court would not be confirmed today. He’s right.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Led by Speaker John Boehner, Republican leaders are trying to placate calls for impeachment.

Obama is the worst President since FDR died? Only if you believe a mostly worthless poll.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

Once again, conservatives demonstrate how little they understand minority voters.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

Who do the Democrats have to take Joe Biden’s place?

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

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

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

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

The opening to China was entirely Richard Nixon’s idea. Henry Kissinger opposed it vehemently.

A certain wealthy man with good hair is doing very well in a meaningless poll.

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?

Another Federal District Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA’s data mining program, this time more favorable to the NSA.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

In 1789, George Washington took office after being elected by only a small portion of the population of the U.S. Does that mean he wasn’t “democratically elected?”

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

The margin in the Virginia Attorney General’s race is, quite literally, razor thin.

The news that Obama aides discussed a change to the 2012 ticket is part of the latest Halperin/Heilemann campaign history.

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

The political polarization we saw during the Bush Presidency has continued throughout the Obama Presidency.

The pioneering journalist David Frost has died, aged 74 years.

Chris Christie waded into the debate going on in the GOP over foreign policy. His comments were less than helpful to say the least.

A George W. Bush renaissance? Not exactly.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

The former Republican Senator and current Independent governor has come full circle.

Former Senator Bob Dole joins the list of those not too happy with the current state of the Republican Party.

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.