Outside the Beltway

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

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

The Wall Street Journal publishes a screed aimed at those about to graduate college.

Optimism sells. Someone should remind the GOP of this fact.

The Atlantic Council honored UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Britain’s Prince Harry, Unilever CEO and philanthropist Paul Polman, the enlisted men and women of the United States Armed Forces, and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Not only does yogurt make mice slimmer; it also makes them sexier.

The White House is playing a game that few people are buying.

Ron Paul’s supporters are racking up delegate wins at party conventions in caucus states, but it won’t matter in the end.

Americans are ridiculously fat and getting fatter by the nanosecond.

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

Another bizarre conservative rant about the President.

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

Did Joe Biden misspeak, or drop a hint that he shouldn’t have?

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

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

The Libertarian Party has chosen another former Republican politician as their Presidential nominee.

If you agree to work for nothing, don’t complain you’re being “exploited.”