Outside the Beltway

Stanford astrophysicist Andrei Linde gets a nice surprise.

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

Another liberal legal scholar is calling on Justice Ginsburg to resign. She’s unlikely to listen to them.

Some thoughts and links about the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela.

Have gubernatorial elections become more nationalized?

Was there ever a more tepid endorsement than “Joe Scarborough for President? Sure, Why Not?”

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

Afghanistan’s outgoing President says that his nation doesn’t need American troops to stay after the end of the year.

When will BG Jeffrey Sinclair get an effing haircut?

As everyone anticipated, the Crimean referendum came out in favor of secession from Ukraine and union with Russia. What happens next is another question entirely.

There are lots of different ways of looking at the situation in Ukraine—historical, game theoretical, and interpersonal perspectives.

Congratulations to Dave Schuler on a decade of blogging.

The Let Us Spray Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

A Jewish-American OSS hero has been denied the nation’s highest military honor.

The president went there.

Being a public intellectual doesn’t pay.

Does one Special Election in Florida tells us anything about nationwide trends? Probably not.

Nora Caplan-Bricker contends that, “Mike Huckabee Could Be President—If Only He Wanted It.”

More on the pending referendum and some thoughts on elections in authoritarian contexts.