Outside the Beltway

That ball is in your court, Congress.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

Innocent men have been put to death on the orders of the state.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

Some thoughts on reform.

Hillary Clinton is getting offers from universities to add her name and presence.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

CNN is reviving the Crossfire shoutfest with Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, and Van Jones as hosts.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

The Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action in education didn’t go as far as many thought it would, but it’s future in the near-term seems fairly clear.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

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

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

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

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

Some of the Harvard students accused of cheating are speaking out, and making allegations of their own.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

While it upheld the Affordable Care Act today, the Supreme Court also placed some clear limits on Congressional power. That’s a good thing.

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

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

With the Supreme Court’s decision imminent, many supporters of the PPACA are starting to second guess the Obama Administration’s legal strategy.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

If we taught the Federalist Papers more rigorously would that lead to a shared view of the constitution?

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

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

The scam of the US News college rankings and the various ways in which colleges scam said scam rankings.

There’s no law requiring Presidential candidates to release their tax returns. Should they be expected to do it anyway?

Becoming a Member of Congress can be a very lucrative career.

A dwindling proportion of students are majoring in STEM fields. They’re likely making the wise choice.

Pondering Tea Party comparisons as well as the “does it matter?” question.

Damage from starting one’s career during a recession can persist over one’s entire working life.