Outside the Beltway

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

Critics of Barack Obama’s foreign policy should engage his actual policies — not policies that don’t actually exist.

Calls are coming from both sides of the aisle for the U.S. to do “something” about the situation in Libya. It would be better if we didn’t get involved.

Republicans were largely silent during the Bush Administration as spending went out of control. Will they do that again?

Some Republican Senators-elect are imploring Harry Reid not to consider any treaties during the lame duck session.

Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.

Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.

It is notoriously difficult to judge a presidency mid-stream.

Daniel Larison and Reihan Salan have an intelligent discussion on the Internet, managing to persuade each other!