Outside the Beltway

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

If a new Gallup poll is any indication, Paul Ryan was not a great pick.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

The recent call by many on the right for Mitt Romney to select Paul Ryan as his running mate is puzzling.

While Washington dithers, business owners are starting to worry.

Doug Saunders makes the counterintuitive claim that things are better for Britons than ever.

The President’s former Budget Director joins the ranks of those calling for Postal privatization.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

Restaurant chain Chick-fil-A is facing criticism after its President’s comments on same-sex marriage.

For some reason, George Zimmerman sat down for an hour-long interview last night.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Absent something extraordinary, it’s unlikely that the GOP will lose control of the House.

We don’t know what the Supreme Court will have to say about the Affordable Care Act, but their decision is already being attacked.

Do Americans have any idea how different their lives are from the rest of the humanity?

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

Is President Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage helping to create a change in opinion on the issue among African-Americans?

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

Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.

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

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

Is the Supreme Court risking it’s legitimacy if it strikes down the individual mandate?

Starting tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court dives into the most significant case that has been before it in many years.

A Northeastern Republican announces retirement. And GOP hopes for control of the Senate in 2013 become more tenuous.

The Republican debacle of 1964 offers some lessons for the current cycle.

American politics is as polarized as ever, and it shows no signs of changing regardless of who wins in November.

Are the Republicans the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich? Or a viable contender for the White House?

Conservatives are rejecting Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek essay out of hand, but they ought to pay attention to what he’s saying.

Senator Jim DeMint demonstrated clearly today what is wrong with Washington.

America’s greatest statesmen fear America’s political paralysis endangers our ability to lead the world.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

By looking only in one direction, Occupy Wall Street is missing the big picture.

The prospects for real economic recovery are not good.

When the old rules don’t apply anymore, the system breaks down.

Far from being an existential crisis, the recent rise in public distrust in government is easily explained.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has proposed a simple deal to break the impasse on the debt ceiling: Cede power to raise the ceiling to the president, with a few minor caveats.

I’m continually shocked when demonstrably bright and accomplished people fall in love with authoritarian states.

More than any other time in the past, the GOP is now firmly under the control of its most conservative members.

Will days of strong economic growth ever return? And what happens if they don’t?