Outside the Beltway

Former Justice O’Connor seems to regret the fact that the Supreme Court got involved in the 2000 election. Her regrets are misplaced.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

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

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

President Obama’s job approval numbers have fallen off from their post-election highs. But, does it matter?

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

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

Ooops.

Chris Christie looks unstoppable in his bid for re-election

Some proposed reforms just need to be ignored.

Republicans continue to fight over their party’s future.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

Kevin Drum argues that, “We Don’t Have a Spending Problem. We Have an Aging Problem.”

You can’t always get what you want.

Norm Ornstein may have written the sillest op-ed of 2012.

John Cornyn tells Jennifer Rubin that he’ll oppose the confirmation of his former colleague, Chuck Hagel, for Secretary of Defense.

Robert Bork, the controversial jurist whose failed Supreme Court bid ushered in a new climate in American politics, has died at 85.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

Charlie Crist, run out of the Republican Party, is now a Democrat.

The Air Force has a leadership crisis.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have much sympathy for her former aide’s inability to “have it all.”

The President has yet to tell us what he would do with a Second Term.