Outside the Beltway

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

Next up: Pompeo

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.

My former home state executes more people per capita than any other state in the union. It has not gotten much better at it.

Here’s one vote for ending this annoying practice.

The Bergdahl case comes to an end.

President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings begin Monday morning, but it’s Senate Democrats who are in the hot seat.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

After stumbling in Michigan last week, Hillary Clinton picked up a string of solid victories last night that put her one step closer to winning the nomination.

With time running out, the top three candidates for the Republican nomination picked up right where they left off last week.

The President has another plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s as likely to be well-received on Capitol Hill as all of his other previous plans on this issue.

Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.

After more than three decades, the men and women held hostage in Iran for 444 days will receive at least some compensation.

The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

Lindsey Graham recently retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserves after 33 years of service. He missed most of the last twenty.

The debate is ultimately academic.

Many of America’s top law firms have declined to accept cases defending bans on same-sex marriage, and that’s okay.

A tale of Kafkaesque torture by Comcast Customer Service reveals that the person who really made the mistakes here was the homeowner.

President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.

In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on C.I.A. torture, some have suggested that eight years of Jack Bauer helped make torture more acceptable to the American public.

The “ticking time bomb scenario” is a TV trope and, therefore, is a terrible guide for making policy.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

What now?

A dark and regrettable time in American history is finally seeing the light of day.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

No surprises so far.

How long should we expect people to work?

Brian Schweitzer has a reputation for saying things that most politicians wouldn’t, but that may be just what he needs to get attention if he runs in 2016.

Good intentions and good results aside, the President’s disrespect for the Rule Of Law should concern everyone.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is a name we’re likely to be seeing in the news for some time to come.

So, this happened.

Continuing the discussion from earlier this week on hate crimes.

Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War hero and one-term US Senator from Alabama, has died. He was 89.