Outside the Beltway

Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.

The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.

Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.

Good news for two released Americans, but no clue what’s motivating North Korea’s latest actions.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a case that could completely gut the financial structure of the Affordable Care Act.

Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.

The Supreme Court will decide if Congress can override American foreign policy when it comes to declaring who has dominion over Jerusalem.

A pair of accidents has led some to wonder if we are at the end of commercial ventures in space. Clearly, we are not.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

We’ve handed off operations in Helmand Province to the Afghanistan army.

It’s been three months, but there’s been no action on the lawsuit that the House of Representatives said it was filing against President Obama.

Law enforcement remains unhappy about the recent changes that will make it harder to break into a locked smartphone.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

Sometimes, being evasive in answering a question just makes a politician look silly. This is one of those times.

A massacre is about to unfold “a stone’s throw” from Turkey’s border.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

In the current situation, speaking out forcefully as some are demanding can only do more harm than good.

Speaker Boehner wants to delay a vote on the ISIS war until January, but any such debate will be meaningless because Congress has already abdicated responsibility.

The sixth year of a presidency leads to some predictable commentary (and some comparative notes).

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

The Affordable Care Act is playing almost no role in the midterm elections.

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

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

For purely political reasons, the Administration is delaying the announcement of new executive action on immigration.

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

Another Obamacare case is heading to the Supreme Court, but it’s unclear if they’ll agree to hear it, or when they’d hear it if they did.

The U.S. and Europe have announced a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it’s not clear that the Russians will be motivated to change course.

What the West does in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine is largely up to Europe, not the United States.

Contradictory rulings from two Federal Courts of Appeal show that statutory construction isn’t a simple thing.

Rick Perry is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the border for no apparent reason.

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

Yesterday’s events are likely to be a game changer, but how the game plays out depends largely on how Europe reacts.