Outside the Beltway

Apparently, the EPA needs to start environmental cleanup a little closer to home.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

The Obama White House rejected Republican criticism of the deal that led to the release of the only American Prisoner Of War from the Afghanistan War.

It seems unlikely that Eric Shinseki will have a job for much longer.

Chelsea Clinton is pregnant, and once again America’s political pundits are making fools of themselves.

If a decision by the Senate Press Gallery stands, SCOTUSBlog’s ability to cover the Supreme Court will be significantly restricted.

Today in “Dumb Things Republicans Say.”

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

On the day that news broke that Ezra Klein and Wonkblog are leaving the Washington Post, the Volokh Conspiracy made its debut there.

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

Blogging has changed much over the last decade, and not all for the good.

Our profound condolences to Doug Mataconis on the loss of his father.

The Economist reports that “The coffee insurgency” is winning.

The President is neither messiah nor devil, and the media does the public no favors when it treats him as either.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.