Outside the Beltway

And Republicans wonder why they have problems with minority voters.

Lindsey Graham is playing cynical political games with a dangerous part of the world.

Michelle Nunn is running for her dad’s old Senate seat.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Could Rick Perry recover from his disastrous 2012 campaign to become a viable candidate?

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

A decade ago. a certain New York Times columnist was more right than your humble host.

Doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

The Supreme Court today struck down the most controversial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A major Constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

Anthony Weiner’s campaign for Mayor Of New York isn’t exactly getting off on the right foot.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

“Mark Sanford walked out on us, violated our trust … maybe Mark Sanford should just keep walking.”

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

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum apparently talked about uniting to stop Romney during the 2012 Republican primaries.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

Here we go again.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, support for the decision is still strong, but the effort to restrict it continues apace.

In “Veterans and Senate Buddies, Until Another War Split Them,” Elisabeth Bumiller profiles the relationship between Chuck Hagel and John McCain:

The attempted coup against John Boehner resembled something you’d see in a banana republic.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.