Outside the Beltway

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

Yet another Federal Judge has struck down a state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

An award for breaking a campaign promise.

Innocent men have been put to death on the orders of the state.

A legal setback for Voter ID laws in Wisconsin.

The bloom is off the rose, but Chris Christie could still be a strong candidate in 2016.

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

Our tax system is so complicated that whether we’re filing our returns correctly is a known unknown.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

The editorial board of the nation’s newspaper of record laments a quarter century-old trend.

The former Florida Governor is talking more openly about running for President than he ever has before.

President Obama has gotten more federal judges confirmed at every level than his predecessor had at this point.

Americans are skeptical about getting involved in the Ukraine crisis. This isn’t a surprise.

Was there ever a more tepid endorsement than “Joe Scarborough for President? Sure, Why Not?”

Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.

The votes are in. And the outcome is meaningless.

The West owes Ukraine nothing.

Refusing to raise the debt ceiling does nothing at all to control spending.

Most Americans now see America’s decade of war as a failure.

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores his complicated reaction to the first African-American president.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Former SecDef Robert Gates is among those who believes that the Iraq War unduly diverted attention from fighting the War On Terror.

A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?

There are more self-identified Independents in the country than at any time in the past two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. And it’s mostly at the expense of the GOP.

The Iraqis need to learn to govern themselves, and conservatives blaming President Obama for renewed violence need a history lesson.

From Florida, a small victory for Fourth Amendment rights.

.Many have tried to justify N.S.A. data mining on the theory that it could have prevented 9/11. Is that true?

Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

In an ordinary post-recession world, we wouldn’t need to talk about extended unemployment benefits, but times are far from ordinary.

A Federal District Court Judge struck down part of Utah’s law against polygamy brought by the stars of TLC’s “Sister Wives.”

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

The most important leader to come out of Africa in the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of history, has died.

A new poll finds the American public far less supportive of the idea of the U.S. as the world’s policeman.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

A third term for any of these guys? Don’t count on it.