Outside the Beltway

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

While the world watches Ukraine, Central Asia could also be an area where Russia may seek to expand its territory.

Trying to make some sense out of a week of outrage.

Rumors are circulating again that the House GOP may make an immigration reform pitch before the midterm elections.

Once again, Rand Paul is challenging conservative orthodoxy.

Many Republicans won’t like Jeb Bush’s recent comments about illegal immigration, but he’s right.

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

A pattern continues.

The future may hold a lot of vehement arguing over insignificant bits of territory.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

The House GOP leadership’s principles are a good start, but it’s unclear if they can make it past the anti “amnesty” crowd that seems to dominate the GOP.

An excellent argument for immigration reform can be found in the case of one Californian named Sergio Garcia.

The false choice that is rampant in drug warrior thinking is the main problem when it comes to good policy.

The latest news on the marijuana legalization front has led David Brooks and others to go into a completely pathetic panic.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

Republican hardliners are pushing a position on immigration that is completely out of sync with the nation as a whole.

Immigration reform may be the next big battle on Capitol Hill, but it’s going to be far different from the one that just concluded.

Two states are creating a voting system that will make some people ineligible to vote in state and local elections.

Unfortunately, our immigration debate is just plain dumb.

The latest House GOP pronouncements on immigration reform make it exceedingly unlikely that any bill will pass this year.

Richard Calderoni was arrested after acting like a jerk on an airplane.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

An empty threat.

The return of a really bad idea.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

Effective immediately, Texans will have to show photo identification to vote.

It looks for all the world as if the House GOP Caucus isn’t really under the control of the leadership.

Yes, it ended slavery. But at a huge cost.

A new Congressional Budget Office report finds real economic benefits from immigration reform.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

John Boehner clearly wants to see an immigration bill passed this year, but he has a very narrow path to victory.

Today’s decision by the Supreme Court was, on the surface, a victory for Federal Supremacy, but the issue itself is far from resolved.

Speaker Boehner seems confident that immigration reform will become law this year, but his confidence may be premature.

Set backs for Pennsylvania in its effort to reverse the NCAA sanctions against Penn State, and a new lawsuit from the Paterno family. The Sandusky story returns.