Outside the Beltway

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

For better or worse, Marion Barry was a fixture in D.C. politics for much of the 40 year period of home rule that began in 1975.

Should the Legislature take back legislating from the Executive?

Always as many military personnel identify as Independents as with the GOP.

A political earthquake in the Sunflower State that could have a big impact on the battle for control of the Senate.

Mitch McConnell’s campaign was forced to do a shakeup thanks to a scandal that could envelop Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign.

Dispelling a rising myth,

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

There are plenty of other factors that help our two major parties retain power.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

Parties do not own voters, and the job of campaigns is to attract voters.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

Mitch McConnell’s hopes to become Senate Majority Leader could hinge on what happens in his own state and in Georgia.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

Same-sex marriage remains the law of the land in one of the most conservative states in the nation, at least unless the Supreme Court says otherwise.

Some recent political science on the subject.

There is far less overlap between the two parties in the House–and the shift has been empirically rightward.

If the Syrian civil war is like other civil wars, it’s not ending any time soon.

The argument that the Roberts Court has been overly “activist” does not hold up to examination.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

The American taxpayer spent a lot of money today paying their employees not to work.

One inmate’s view of the asylum.

An Example of How Institutions Matter.

The award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post:

Some thoughts on reform.

Some thoughts on the ongoing situation in Egypt.

The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.

My latest for The National Interest, “Kenneth Waltz’s Crucial Logic,” has posted.

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

It would be nice if columnists for major newspapers would consult political science, rather than Hollywood, for their understanding of our system.

The American people no longer seem to care if their political leaders are divorced.

Robert Farley takes a shot across the bow at the academy from the pages of one of his field’s most prestigious journals.