Outside the Beltway

Pundits on the left and the right are having a hard time understanding what Chris Christie’s praise of the President is all about.

We are fast approaching an era where robot-driven cars will not only be practical but mandatory.

Were you impacted by Hurricane Sandy? If so, how did you fare?

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

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.

Too little, too late?

Before last night, Romney was toast and Republicans were demoralized; now, there’s a glimmer of hope.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.

Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” remarks seem to be hurting him.

It’s still possible for Mitt Romney to win this election, but is it probable?

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

My latest for The Atlantic, “What Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Look Like?” has posted.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?

My latest for The Atlantic, “Stop Feeling Sorry for American Veterans, has posted.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

For the second Presidential election cycle in a row, a tropical storm has resulted in the postponement of the first day events at the Republican National Convention.

A culture of fact-checking, of honesty, is as important as the actual fact-checking.

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott is dead, aged 68, after an apparent suicide.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria looks to be caught in a bit of a plagiarism scandal.

The cover of Patrick Wensink’s novel Broken Piano for President bore a striking resemblence to the label of a certain quality Tennessee sour mash whiskey. So, Jack Daniel’s’ lawyer sent him a nice note.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

My latest for The Atlantic continues the debate over work-life balance spawned by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.”

Men who graduate elite universities earn an additional $107,000 lifetime. It costs $234,440 to get a Yale degree.

In advance of tomorrow’s ruling, some pundits on the left are displaying some very odd views on the role of the law in American politics.

After years of calls for a College Football playoff, we’ll finally get one. Let the criticism begin.

I’ve joined The Atlantic’s debate over a thought-provoking cover story by Anne-Marie Slaughter.

The Veepstakes doesn’t matter nearly as much as the media tells you it does.

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

NASA was in need of new telescopes and got a helping hand from their good pals at the DoD.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

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.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.