Outside the Beltway

White America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority.

While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.

Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?

Governor Brewer walks back he beheadings claims.

The idea that we are in the middle of an illegal immigration crisis is not supported by the evidence.

An obscure U.N. human rights report has become the latest political outrage of the day in the battle over Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

President Obama will be giving an address to schoolkids again this year. Stay tuned for the cries of “indoctrination !”

After surviving the worst of a hard-fought primary campaign against J.D. Hayworth, Senator John McCain is probably pretty pleased with himself right now.

Republicans should hammer big themes — the loss of jobs, the poor health of the economy, reckless spending, increasing the size/scope of government, and tax increases — and avoid getting bogged down in policy details this campaign season.

A staggering 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2008 were offspring of illegal aliens. What are the public policy implications?

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

A fatal car crash on a country road in Northern Virginia has become part of the national debate on over illegal immigration.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

The United States Congress is starting to resemble a grade-school playground.

The link between immigration and crime rates that many immigration opponents point to simply does not exist

Immigration “moderate” Lindsey Graham is suddenly sounding not so moderate.

Yes, a lot of people are dying on the Arizona border, but the cause is not the drug war. Rather, it is simple fact that crossing the desert on foot is a dangerous proposition. (And this is not a new phenomenon).

Marco Rubio doesn’t want to see the proliferation of SB1070s to other states.

Let’s revisit the question of crime levels in Arizona.

Arizona has been experiencing a massive increase in violent crime of late, right?

Are the majority of illegal immigrants drug-runners? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer thinks so.