Outside the Beltway

For better or worse, the attack in Boston is likely to have an impact on the immigration reform debate.

The Boston Marathon bomber must be tried in a court of law.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Social conservatives are seeing their clout slip away, but there’s not much they can do about it.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes uses a quota system to make sure his guests aren’t all white dudes.

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

The Canal made a number of impressions.

The Hagel confirmation, like Obama’s election, was big news to some avid news consumers.

The Three senors Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A theory on why Benghazi will not die as a political issue.

Here we go again.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

Marco Rubio has some good immigration reform ideas. Will his fellow Republicans listen to him?

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

In “Veterans and Senate Buddies, Until Another War Split Them,” Elisabeth Bumiller profiles the relationship between Chuck Hagel and John McCain:

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

While no official announcements have been made, President Obama’s second term national security team appears to be taking shape.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Mitt Romney wasn’t a perfect candidate, but he was much better than most of the 2012 Republican field.

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.