Outside the Beltway

Senator Ted Cruz has alienated his colleagues in record time.

Here we go again.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

In “Veterans and Senate Buddies, Until Another War Split Them,” Elisabeth Bumiller profiles the relationship between Chuck Hagel and John McCain:

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

John Cornyn tells Jennifer Rubin that he’ll oppose the confirmation of his former colleague, Chuck Hagel, for Secretary of Defense.

While no official announcements have been made, President Obama’s second term national security team appears to be taking shape.

Politico’s Mike Allen reports that several Republicans are expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention next month.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.