Outside the Beltway

The government may soon stop making you turn off your iPad for no apparent reason.

A new blog, Rejection Letters of the Philosophers, “imagin[es] what the greats of history might have been faced with, had they been forced to publish or perish.”

Apparently, the prospect of a thousand pound fine isn’t enough to persuade Bristol’s dog owners to clean up after their pooches.

Your latest Outrage Of The Day.

Yes, it ended slavery. But at a huge cost.

Libya continues to teeter on the brink of chaos.

This is a problem of culture and leadership that can’t wait.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

About $7 billion in military equipment now in Afghanistan will be scrapped rather than returned to the U.S.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

The leader of a ministry that has been trying to cure gays since 1976 has announced that he’s gay.

A new Congressional Budget Office report finds real economic benefits from immigration reform.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

Radical Islamists now dominate the Syrian opposition. And you’re arming them.

George Zimmer, the founder and public face of Men’s Wearhouse since 1973, has been fired as CEO.

What possible value would it have almost four decades after the fact that justifies expending not inconsiderable taxpayer resources?

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

Going from flying a real airplane to operating a drone in Alamagordo sucks.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

John Boehner clearly wants to see an immigration bill passed this year, but he has a very narrow path to victory.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court narrowly decided a case on the right against self-incrimination that is likely to do great harm to individual rights.

Scott Walker could be the GOP’s surprise candidate in 2016.