Outside the Beltway

For the first time, Donald Trump is leading a poll for the GOP 2012 nomination. That’s bad news for the GOP.

Donald Trump is waiting to announce whether he’s running for president until after taping of “The Apprentice” concludes. Some thing NBC shouldn’t allow him to wait.

Mitt Romney forcefully said Tuesday night that he believes President Barack Obama was born in America and that “the citizenship test has been passed.”

Ann Coulter says its time for Birthers to shut up.

Donald Trump, who may or may not be running for President, is continuing his strange obsession with the birther myth, and reminding Republicans that two years of silence in the face of lunacy may come back to bite them.

The race for the 2012 Republican nomination is missing the one thing that GOP nomination battles have almost always had, a frontrunner.

Labor and management are not simply adversaries at the negotiating table; they represent two very different cultures, if not social classes.

President Obama isn’t unbeatable in 2012. but it’s clear even now that he’s going to be a far more formidable opponent than many Republicans seem to think.

The 2012 GOP nominee will have to raise $300 million and assemble a top-notch staff.

Polls matching President Obama against potential Republican contenders are entertaining but not informative.

The media are wildly exaggerating the heckling at a gathering of conservatives.

Donald Trump sounds like a man running for president.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.

Ezra Klein argues that Sarah Palin’s Twitter account isn’t very popular. But that misses the point.

Salon has video of the aftermath of the Hopfinger handcuffing. Plus: if we remove the partisan labels and just assess what happened, would we view this situation differently?

Craig Newmark thinks NPR’s membership model will overtake advertising-supported news over the next decade.