Outside the Beltway

At the apex of the last economic boom, we were spending far less as a percentage of our income on food, clothing, and transportation than our predecessors of half a century before, with the surplus going mostly to education and health care.

Should you lie to your kids about holiday fantasy characters?

Aaron Shaw and Yochai Benkler have an article in the current issue of American Behavioral Scientist titled “A Tale of Two Blogospheres : Discursive Practices on the Left and Right.”

NRO’s John Derbyshire went off on a bizarre, racist, rant yesterday.

Marine Sergeant Gary Stein will soon be free to criticize the commander-in-chief all he wants. As a civilian.

The jobs picture–and thus the overall economic forecast–becomes much gloomier with the release of the March Labor report.

Mitt Romney, who has law and business degrees from Harvard, is criticizing President Obama for having a law degree from Harvard.

Newt Gingrich is morally and intellectually bankrupt, so perhaps it’s no surprise that his health care think tank is now fiscally bankrupt.

Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice confirms that it supports Marbury v. Madison

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

Republican leaders seem resigned to a second Obama term. Here’s why it’s no slam dunk.

Andrew Sullivan wants the Catholic Church to give up its hatred of homosexuals. There’s another alternative.

A crack in the orthodoxy?

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.

The 5th Circuit has demanded a report from the president on his views about the power of the courts.

A bill that may become law in Arizona could make your Internet comments a crime.

What we are seeing at the moment is the expected political churn that accompanies something as big as the PPACA case

When will Santorum bow to the inevitable?

The White House and its allies have already declared war on a decision that won’t even be rendered until three months from now.

Through a stroke of bad luck, the Atlantic Council server was down during a critical Google update

The US Supreme Court ruled today that police can strip search anyone they decide to arrest for anything for any reason.

A new book would classify most of us who consume alcohol as “almost alcoholics.”

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

Republicans are finally starting to realize that they are in trouble with Hispanic voters.

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

The media circus around the shooting of Trayvon Martin is getting worse.