Outside the Beltway

Requiring people with ethical conflicts to disclose them leads to more bad behavior, not less, a new study finds.

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

The ICC may issue a warrant for Gaddafi.

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

It’s Campaign Fact of Life No. 1: If you aren’t a factor in the race, you aren’t going to get free media.

Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run has shaken up the GOP field for 2012.

Are we safer in high population areas?

Academic publishers want to end the Fair Use of scholarly journal articles in the classroom.

We won’t have Mike Huckabee to kick around in 2012.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.

You know those creepy running shoes that look like fluorescent feet? They’re going mainstream.

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

Amanda Marcotte argues that society secretly sympathizes with rapists.

Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.

If former President George W. Bush has any bitterness that Osama bin Laden was finally killed under his successor, he’s not showing it.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Is lunch necessary? It’s not really where the conversation is.

Superman doesn’t hate America after all!