Outside the Beltway

It looks like things are underway in Libya, with French President Nicholas Sarkozy confirming that French jets are already in the air above Libya.

What are the limits of Resolution 1973? Are there any?

Lawyers in US court case spent ten pages of transcript arguing what a photocopier is. “Do you have machines where I can put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document, also on paper?”

Shailagh Murray becomes the latest reporter to join the Obama White House.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Apparently, being named after the sitting president wasn’t enough to keep Ashbury Park, New Jersey’s Barack H. Obama Elementary School open.

Simplest possible NCAA Tournament bracket

Did President Obama pull off a diplomatic masterstroke? Or is he muddling through?

The NPR vote was nothing more than political theatrics–and it violated a GOP campaign promise to boot.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

With minor exceptions, all of the potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 seem to have accepted the idea that defense spending, and the Bush-era interventionist foreign policy, are off the table when it comes time to talk spending cuts.

The Obama Administration is asking the U.N. Security Council to authorize direct military intervention in Libya. The question is, why now?

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While complaints that there’s too much information for intellectuals to sort through, much less read, are constant, they’re not new. Harvard historian Ann Blair argues in her new book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age that this stress goes back at least to Seneca’s time.

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Regardless of one’s preferences in terms of endgame in Wisconsin, democracy will win out.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

They’re letting anyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame these days.

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

New York Times journalists Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, and Lynsey Addario have not been heard from in more than 24 hours.

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

Alain Juppé’s concession that “the moment has passed” for NATO to successfully intervene in Libya is correct.