Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

Did Joe Biden misspeak, or drop a hint that he shouldn’t have?

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

Welcome to today’s Outrage Of The Day

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

Facts are stubborn things.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice confirms that it supports Marbury v. Madison

The 5th Circuit has demanded a report from the president on his views about the power of the courts.

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.

This morning, the Justices pondered the fate of the PPACA if they strike down the individual mandate.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.

By the end of today’s first day of hearings on the Affordable Care Act, the Justices seem eager to take the consider the case on the merits.

A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

The debt has increased at a faster rate in the past three years than in the previous eight, but assigning blame isn’t what matters.

What happens when political pandering substitutes for serious fiscal policy.

No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”

The argument over contraceptive coverage mandates has not gone well for conservatives.

Republicans continue to harp on the fact that the President uses a TelePrompter.

Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

GM’s big gamble on the future, the Chevy Volt, isn’t yet paying off.

Many on the right seem unwilling to condemn clearly offensive remarks by Rush Limbaugh

Another Federal Court rules in favor of marriage equality, and the biggest news is how unsurprising the outcome of the case is.

Will louder threats move the Iranian regime to back down?

The Obama Administration introduced a corporate tax reform plan that doesn’t go nearly far enough.