Outside the Beltway

One of the dumbest rules in sports may mean that people in three cities can’t see their teams play this weekend.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

The Marine Corps’ plan to make women take the same fitness test as men has hit a wee snag.

Nobody gets the airplane they wanted but at least they’re paying more for the one they’re getting.

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

Developments overnight in a small but controversial issue raised by the PPACA.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

Watch your language in Wilson County, North Carolina.

.Many have tried to justify N.S.A. data mining on the theory that it could have prevented 9/11. Is that true?

The “good war” no more.

Ted Cruz continues to act as if he hasn’t learned his lessons from the shutdown debacle

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The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

Another Federal District Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA’s data mining program, this time more favorable to the NSA.

Thanks to a Federal District Court Judge, most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.

The era of the electric car isn’t likely to arrive for a long time, if ever.

The Sunbelt continues to dominate.

Consumers share some of the blame for the late delivery problems that last minute shoppers experienced this Christmas season.

So far at least, the 2014 elections do not appear likely to be a political earthquake on the scale of 2006, 2008, or 2010.