Outside the Beltway

49 “experts in governance and democracy” to call for nonsensical reforms to the presidential debates.

The press corps is already bored.

Seventy years ago, Harry Truman became President in the final months of a war. He wasn’t prepared for it, but most Vice-President’s after him have been.

So, she’s in.

The political media is breathlessly reporting on every event in a campaign that is just beginning, and voters aren’t really paying attention to it at this point.

Hillary Clinton continues to look more inevitable by the day, but Joe Biden doesn’t want to go away just yet.

Do we really want to put another first-term Senator with no executive experience in the Oval Office? Because beyond the mere legal requirements, it does not appear that Ted Cruz is qualified to be President.

The president is the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces. He’s not commander-in-chief of the United States.

So what?

Advantage: Hillary.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama’s Paris Blunder: Part of a Much Bigger Problem,” has posted.

Elizabeth Warren said once again that she’s not running for President, now or in the future. That’s not going to stop the efforts to draft her, though.

The costs of more than a decade of war are far higher than many ever thought, and we’re still paying the price for the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration while they were being fought.

The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

A Presidential candidate’s health and fitness for office are legitimate issues. When it comes to bringing up Hillary Clinton’s age in the context of 2016,, though, Republicans need to proceed with caution.

That word may not mean what you think it means.

An idea whose time has come? Not really.

Mitt Romney 2016? Not as far as his wife is concerned.

Individual polls are likely to be volatile, so don’t pay too much attention to them.

Speaker Boehner wants to delay a vote on the ISIS war until January, but any such debate will be meaningless because Congress has already abdicated responsibility.

Politics, the law, culture, and a very old language collide.

And presidentialism encourages this kind of behavior.

One analyst thinks that the predictions of a Republican Senate in 2014 are wildly optimistic.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

Debbie Dingell is set to continue an 80 year legacy of Dingells occupying the same seat in the House of Representatives. That’s not a good thing.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

Some people on the left are still trying to convince Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she needs to just step out on the ice floe already.

More on instiutional design.

Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.

If current trends holds, Democratic candidates are going to have a problem turning out voters in November.

Hillary Clinton remains at the top of the polls, but she’s got at least one big vulnerability.

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

Does the office of Vice-President serve any useful purpose anymore?

Allen West seems to think that God might want him to run for President. Unfortunately for Mr. West, so does Ben Carson.

Romney 2016? Anything’s possible, but probably not.

Have gubernatorial elections become more nationalized?

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

Young voters reject political parties to a greater extent than other voters, but on policy issues they trend Democratic