Health care is eating up 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget and rising fast.

Washington has become the first state in decades to privatize its state-run liquor stores. They’ve coupled this with onerous fees on private distributors.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

87% of those who gave at least $200 to Barack Obama in 2008 have not yet done so in 2012.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

Green Lantern is gay. The original Green Lantern. No, the other original Green Lantern.

The official portrait of George W. Bush, the 43rd president, was unveiled at the White House yesterday. The ceremony was a rare display of political humor and grace.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking to raise money for toll roads through a user tax on their best customers.

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

An Internet meme that Robert Mugabe has been named UN Tourism Ambassador is untrue.

Mark Zuckerberg left at least two Italian restaurants without tipping. Apparently, he read his guide books.

A story headlined “American Airlines Rejects Female Passenger Because Political Pro-Choice T-Shirt is ‘Inappropriate'” is going viral.

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

Jennifer Rubin accuses Colin Powell of political opportunism for hedging on whether to renew his endorsement of Barack Obama.

Apparently, pretended overpriced pomegranate juice is a magic healing elixir is more than the law will allow.

Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died aged 96.

A North Carolina teacher screamed and cursed at students for criticizing President Obama.

The Internet is public and forever. But maybe it shouldn’t be.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is making their first trip to the Western Conference finals after ousting the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Naturally, rioting and gunplay ensued.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

While the United States has some serious problems with policing, we’re not a police state.

Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.

The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.

Private college degree mills have come under intense scrutiny. But many public institutions have similar statistics.

Uni-watch is holding a contest for a redesign of the uniforms for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

For years, I’ve used Loretta Lynn as an example of how fast societal mores have changed. It turns out that her marriage at age 13 may be a bit of myth making.

Since Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

A new poll finds that adding Chris Christie to the ticket would fail to deliver New Jersey to the Republicans.

Trayvon Martin’s autopsy shows injuries to his knuckles, which bolsters George Zimmerman’s claim that there was a fight, a Florida television station reports.

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

In office less than a day, Francois Hollande has already been forced to admit he can’t withdraw French forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

The Germans are taking this austerity thing a little far: their police fired only 85 shots at humans last year.

Dish Network is offering customers a DVR that will skip commercials. I’m sure their content providers are thrilled.

The next generation search engine may not point to Web pages at all.