Outside the Beltway

How long should we expect people to work?

Far right parties are succeeding in Europe because the mainstream parties aren’t offering an alternative.

It may be time to rethink the way we make candidates get on the ballot.

Public cynicism about politics at its very best.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

Once again, the Supreme Court reminds us that limiting political speech is unconstitutional.

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

Young voters reject political parties to a greater extent than other voters, but on policy issues they trend Democratic

Casting a bit of cartographic light on the crisis in Ukraine.

A rich guy wants to break up California.

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

There are more self-identified Independents in the country than at any time in the past two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. And it’s mostly at the expense of the GOP.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

Marin Bashir’s ugly comments about Sarah Palin are being compared to Rush Limbaugh’s ugly comments about Sandra Fluke.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

The economy of the Euro Zone remains in quiet dire straits, unless you’re lucky enough to live in Germany.

It’s a party thing.

The Supreme Court heard argument in a major campaign finance case yesterday.

Paul Ryan is back, and he has a plan his party ought to be paying attention to.

The first poll taken after the shutdown began has little good news for the Republican Party.

Presidents have gotten away with ignoring Congress when it comes to foreign military adventures for a very long time.

Some thoughts on reform.

The architect of President Obama’s re-election campaign is going to work for the Tories.

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

if reports are to be believed, there is a coup d’etat underway in Egypt.

John Boehner clearly wants to see an immigration bill passed this year, but he has a very narrow path to victory.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

Inside the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration investigation into the IRS scandal.

What’s going on in England and Sweden?

The GOP’s public image continues to be bad and there seems to be little sign that they’re doing anything to change that.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

The negotiations continue.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

Increasingly, the right of people to speak is being sacrificed in the name of “tolerance” and “security.”

Should we stop televising political debates?

The biggest surprise of the Presidential race to date is the fact that Mitt Romney has lost the edge he once had on economic issues.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.