Outside the Beltway

President Obama is polling at 46.8 percent, below the level needed to win re-election.

Thomas Ricks makes the case that JFK was the worst President of his century but his argument misses the mark.

The draft ended in 1973. It’s effects still linger today.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

The odds of history are against Michele Bachmann.

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.

Unemployment was high when Barack Obama took office and it’s gotten substantially higher. Does that mean he won’t get re-elected?

The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.

Once again, Congressional abdication has led to an Executive Branch power grab.

Ben Stein seems to have been out to lunch when he wrote his column about Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

Like all Presidents before him, Barack Obama is asserting the right to virtually unfettered discretion when it comes to military matters.

Operation Odyssey Dawn has resurrected the eternal battle over what limits there are, and should be, on the President’s ability to use military force without Congressional authorization.

The Nixon Center has gone from one of the most controversially named think tanks in Washington to yet another blandly named one: Center for the National Interest.

Republicans begin to discover that defeating an incumbent President isn’t an easy task.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

If the Soviets had put Jews into gas chambers, it would have been a pity.

According to a new Gallup poll, President Obama is not only less popular than George W. Bush, but the only president from the last half century less popular is Dick Nixon.

After 1 1/2 years in office, President Obama has yet to grant a single request for a pardon or clemency, continuing a thirty year trend in which the Presidential pardon power has nearly fallen in to disuse.

Former Congressman Bob Barr argues that the right should not be so eager to rehabilitate George W. Bush. He’s right.

In my former home state of Alabama, Republicans won every major contest, save the one House seat specifically drawn to ensure a Democratic victory.

Newt Gingrich for President ? You might want to think twice about that, Republicans.

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

In his farewell speech on Friday, Rahm Emanuel said that the Obama Administration had faced tougher times than any previous President. That is a fundamentally absurd idea.

Public trust in Congress is at an all time low, again, and the public doesn’t trust either party to fix things.

This handshake on August 14, 1980 in Madison Square Garden put an end to the public contest between President Carter and Senator Kennedy, but now the former President has decided it’s time to reopen old wounds.

If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

A Southern Baptist Democratic president hated by conservatives is largely responsible for the rise of the American craft brew industry.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

Despite facing a thirteen-count ethics complaint, Charlie Rangel probably isn’t going anywhere.

Why I wasn’t fooled by Barack Obama’s campaign promises to curb presidential power.

Daniel Schorr’s journalism career ended far too early, lasting a mere eighty-one years.

How do President Obama’s accomplishments stack up from a liberal standpoint?

Journalists have been following Maxwell Scott’s advice since long before “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” was made.

Michael Gerson argues that the source of our polarization isn’t the Democrats and the Republicans but the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party.

Americans on both sides of the aisle throw around words like “tyranny” and “fascism” about our system. But there are constant small reminders we are under the rule of law.