Outside the Beltway

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

Rand Paul Is at a distinct disadvantage compared to his fellow Republican candidates for President.

The agency that runs Washington D.C.’s mass transit has banned all political ads after Pamela Gellar attempted to run an advertisement featuring a drawing of Mohammed.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

Lindsey Graham is the latest entrant into the Presidential race, but it’s hard to see how he gets out of the bottom of the polls.

The “Draft Warren” movement is basically dead.

Billionaire wunderkind Elon Musk has had a lot of help from taxpayers.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was refused a job because of her hijab.

The former Olympian has made a transition.

The Supreme Court has narrowed the means by which Federal prosecutors can prosecute someone for making statements online that could be perceived as threats.

In a new poll, a majority of Americans identify as “pro-choice,” but a deeper look at the numbers reveals that abortion politics remains as complicated as ever.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.

Many provisions of the Patriot Act lapsed at midnight, but apparently the world hasn’t ended.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.

The FCC appears set to “encourage” telephone companies to install robocall blocking technology. Pollsters are panicking.

Marco Rubio seems to be in lockstep with the extreme social conservatives when it comes to same-sex marriage.

The next shoe drops in the Dennis Hastert case.

Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.

If a Russian solider dies, it’s now a secret thanks to a new decree signed by the Russian President.

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2015, and that suggests the rest of the year isn’t going to be very good either.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

A new poll shows that nearly seven in ten Americans believe that people who are terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.

A woman discharged from the Marine Corps for violating multiple direct orders is fighting to the highest military court.

Despite a veto from the state’s Governor, today Nebraska became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Hopefully, others will follow.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

A minimum wage for thee, but not for me.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

The President’s plan to give deportation relief to millions of illegal immigrants has hit another legal snag.

The Supreme Court accepted a case that will require the Justices to decide just what it meant when it established the “one person, one vote” rule for drawing legislative districts.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

Voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a referendum legalizing same-sex marriage.