Outside the Beltway

Another health care worker in Dallas is being treated for exposure to the Ebola Virus.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has made an incredibly weak argument in favor of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

And Alaska makes 30.

The U.S. Air Campaign Against ISIS Is Much Bigger Than You Think

The die is cast.

Bush 2016?

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

WaPo’s Emily Wax-Thibodeaux reports that, “At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert.”

The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?

Chief Justice Roberts lamented recently that an increasingly partisan confirmation process could mean that Justices who have contributed much to the Court would not be confirmed today. He’s right.

The United Kingdom will stay united, but it may never be the same again.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Apple announced a stunning array of upgraded and new products yesterday.

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

After several months of good news, the August Jobs Report was quite a disappointment.

One analyst thinks that the predictions of a Republican Senate in 2014 are wildly optimistic.

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

Dispelling a rising myth,

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

Vladimir Putin has become immensely popular in Russia again, and its not hard to figure out why.

The US intelligence community is gambling that it can be more efficient through a public-private partnership than going it alone.

The current Congress is on course to be the least productive in decades.

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

A US-EU free trade zone is a no-brainer. But the devil is in the details.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Target is the latest business to ask customers to leave the guns at home when they go shopping.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

Did sending some of its workforce home without pay impact the work environment at the Defense Department? Duh.

TNR makes the worst possible case for a proposition that’s almost certainly right.

Fears about convention goers taking advantage of Colorado’s marijuana laws could harm Denver’s chances of getting the GOP Convention.

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.

The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Different name, same result in Egypt.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is a name we’re likely to be seeing in the news for some time to come.

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

Not much science from the Congressional Committees devoted to science.