Outside the Beltway

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.

Should the Legislature take back legislating from the Executive?

The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

Our server went kaput. We got a new one.

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Far right parties are succeeding in Europe because the mainstream parties aren’t offering an alternative.

The unequal distribution of social capital may be more important than the unequal distribution of income.

The Second Amendment isn’t broken, and you don’t fix things that aren’t broken.

Voter ID supporters are pointing to a report from the North Carolina Board of Elections as proof of ongoing Voter Fraud. But, while long on facts, the report has yet to reach any such conclusions.

Congratulations to Dave Schuler on a decade of blogging.

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

The West owes Ukraine nothing.

Demand for mid-range goods and services seems to be on the decline.

Once again, the Administration has unilaterally changed the Affordable Care Act.

Thoughts on the precursors to the events of 72 years ago today.

The Last Laugh Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

President Obama seems to have forgotten the words of a certain Illinois State Senator back in 2002.

Some questions that the Administration needs to answer before attacking Syria.

Humanitarian wars have their own grammar but not their own logic.

A lot of new jobs are being advertised but not many people are being hired to fill them. Peter Orszag doesn’t know why.

Just as the auto industry has, painfully, had to learn to adapt to a new world, the city will as well even if that means becoming a shadow of its former self.

Dave Schuler has roused himself from his boredom with the news to comment on the passing of Bob Fletcher, of whom I’d never heard. It’s a story worth hearing if you haven’t.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

Social scientists take note: the press has gotten bored with Syria, so your data are no longer reliable.

Desktop PC sales fell by nearly 14% in the first quarter, continuing an ongoing trend. There are many reasons this is happening.

Whether in the blogosphere or on television, people are increasingly only accessing sources of news and opinion that confirm their pre-conceived ideas.

January’s Jobs Report wasn’t much to write home about

Truth. Overrated?

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

American politicians are using China as a scapegoat for America’s problems.

The biggest surprise of the Presidential race to date is the fact that Mitt Romney has lost the edge he once had on economic issues.

Largely because they are resisting efforts to hold them accountable for their performance, Chicago’s teachers are leaving 400,000 students locked out of school.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

Think the auto bailout was a success? Think again.

One Chicago politician is using clearly unconstitutional tactics in the political war on Chick-fil-A

President Obama set off a firestorm by claiming business owners didn’t build “that.”

The Bush tax cuts were much more progressive than you probably think.