Outside the Beltway

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

After national attention, a North Carolina school has rescinded its ban on a 9-year-old boy’s wearing of a “girl’s” backpack.

Getting nuclear weapons out of Ukraine in 1994 was a good idea, not a mistake.

Politics, media, and the attention span of the average American haven’t really changed as much as we think.

Stanford astrophysicist Andrei Linde gets a nice surprise.

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

Another liberal legal scholar is calling on Justice Ginsburg to resign. She’s unlikely to listen to them.

Some thoughts and links about the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela.

Have gubernatorial elections become more nationalized?

Was there ever a more tepid endorsement than “Joe Scarborough for President? Sure, Why Not?”

Afghanistan’s outgoing President says that his nation doesn’t need American troops to stay after the end of the year.

When will BG Jeffrey Sinclair get an effing haircut?

As everyone anticipated, the Crimean referendum came out in favor of secession from Ukraine and union with Russia. What happens next is another question entirely.

There are lots of different ways of looking at the situation in Ukraine—historical, game theoretical, and interpersonal perspectives.

Congratulations to Dave Schuler on a decade of blogging.

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

A Jewish-American OSS hero has been denied the nation’s highest military honor.

The president went there.

Being a public intellectual doesn’t pay.