Outside the Beltway

What are the limits of Resolution 1973? Are there any?

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

President Obama is telling business they have a social responsibility to invest in America. He’s wrong.

Time for midterms.

Faced with mounting debt, the lame duck Illinois legislature rushed through a massive tax hike in the wee hours this morning.

Chicago’s next mayor will be either Rahm Emanuel or Carol Moseley Braun.

The institutions charged with solving our Information Age social problems are stuck in the Industrial Age.

Tonight’s topics: the Republican effort to run out the clock on the 111th Congress, various reform proposals that are floating around, and goodness knows what else.

Is Congress too small and unequal to do its job?

Tonight’s topics: The tax cut deal, Obama’s primary challengers, and whether politicians should care about the unemployed.

Tonight’s topics: The fallout from the latest WikiLeaks dump and the Pentagon’s report on gays in the military.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Tonight’s topics: Escalation on the Korean peninsula, the continued woes of the eurozone, and goodness knows what else.

Ron Paul has introduced a law (the “American Traveler Dignity Act”) that would punish TSA agents for groping and x-raying Americans.

It’s quite possible that the delays spawned by airline security measures are killing more people than they’re saving.

Tonight’s topics: New airline screening measures, Karzai vs. Petraeus, political infighting among victorious Republicans, and the defeated Democrats keeping their leadership intact.

Hamid Karazi says that the United States needs to reduce it’s military presence in his country. Perhaps we should listen to him.

Tonight’s topic: Slow news day. We’ll figure out something.

A Chicago voter is less than thrilled with the political slate for which he’s voting today.

We’ve been talking about the 2010 elections since, oh, the day after the 2008 elections.   Now, it’s time for final predictions.

Another round of GDP growth figures are out, and they show that the U.S. economy continues to grow far slower than necessary to sustain job growth. Is this a temporary problem, or something we can expect to live with for the foreseeable future?

Tonight’s topic: The election is finally here.

While the American economy languishes, China is booming again.

Tonight’s topics: The foreclosure mess, low GDP growth, and the world-wide Tea Party.

Tonight’s topics: The latest mortgage scandal, lust for a third party, the role of judges in Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, political motorcades and their impact on the little people, and who knows what else. I hear there’s an election coming up, so perhaps that will enter into the discussion as well.

The IRS wants to license tax preparers but exempt lawyers and CPAs from the requirement.

Tonight’s topic: America’s rising income inequality and what, if anything, we ought to do about it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

Tonight’s topics: Democrats’ infighting, the continued Tea Party “takeover” of the GOP, the Obama administration’s following of its predecessor’s lead on executive power, and the degree to which America’s economic competition is fair.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving his job at week’s end to run for mayor of Chicago.

The earnings gap between those with and without a college education continues to grow. But this masks other realities.

Tonight’s topics: Bob Woodward’s new book, the Murkowski write-in bid, the weird race in Delaware, and the end of the Great Recession.

Great news, everybody: The biggest economic calamity since the Great Depression has been over for well over a year.

David Brooks blames our economic woes on a change from a culture that valued productive work to one of gentility. And Bill Cosby.

Tonight’s topics: The Gallup poll and the vanishing 10-point Republican lead, whether we overreacted to 9/11, Mike Castle and the RINO/DINO problem, income inequality, and the retirement of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.

Tonight’s topics: President Obama’s speech, Tony Blair’s book, Glenn Beck’s rally, and the GOP’s steady rise in the polls.

Tonight’s topics: Anything but that damned mosque. Possibilities include: Tuesday’s primaries, the continued economic malaise, and the flooding in Pakistan.

While American politics concerns itself with trivial issues, Pakistan finds itself dealing with a devastating natural disaster that could have real geo-political implications.

Tonight’s topics: the Blagojevich verdict, whether lying about military awards should be protected speech, the politics of the Cordoba House project, the coherence or lack thereof of the Obama administration, and whether the United States should be more like Germany.

Tonight’s topics: Yesterday’s primary elections, the cost of hiring workers in the public and private sectors, anti-Muslim sentiment, and the move to repeal birthright citizenship.

Despite 9.5% unemployment, American firms are struggling to find qualified applicants for job openings.

Should we abandon the notion of civil marriage? Would doing so end the clash over homosexual unions?

Paul Krugman’s Medicare projections don’t line up with what the actuaries are telling us.

A college degree is becoming a virtual necessity to making a good living in America, yet most still aren’t pursuing higher education.