Outside the Beltway

John Cole takes exception to my recent summary of recent Obama campaign highlight.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

The fact that someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re evil

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

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

Two centuries ago, a war that makes less and less sense with the passage of time began.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

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

How many more electoral cycles will we have to endure this ritual?

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.

Some information on Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

Like clockwork, the arguments for creation of a third party are popping up again.

Where do we stand after 224 years?

Is America’s political system to blame for our current problems?

Michele Bachmann’s view of history is based in a world view that would be foreign to most Americans.

Do people who take advantage of tax breaks get a “government benefit”?

Some thoughts on the American experiment at 235 years and counting.

Bachmann’s views on the Founders and slavery are more significant than simply a question of how to classify John Quincy Adams.

Does a little known provision in the 14th Amendment make the entire debt ceiling debate irrelevant?

Bachmann doubles-down on a problematic historical claim.

Sandy Levinson suggests that there is a key lesson from the Founders that we ignore.

Rick Perry makes a valid point about bringing the economy back to Biblical principles.

David Blight recounts the story of the first Memorial Day.

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

So, some bright people are surprised at new polling showing that a significant minority of Southerners have not enthusiastically embraced their ancestors’ loss in the Civil War.

Francis Fukuyama: “In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create.”

If you believe Minnesota Vikings’ Running Back Adrian Peterson, the NFL is a modern-day plantation and he’s a slave.