Outside the Beltway

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

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

An ex-CIA agent says that someone in the Bush White House tried to use the agency to “discredit” Iraq War critic Juan Cole.

Is the war in Libya illegal?

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

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.

The legendary columnist David Broder has died.

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.

The House has voted to repeal the broken system of financing presidential elections.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

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.

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.

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

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

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

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.