Outside the Beltway

Egyptians celebrated last night, but the future is far from clear.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

Yesterday saw some of the biggest protests ever to rock Egypt. Where does it go from here?

The return of a really bad idea.

James Holmes will be shackled like animal during his murder trial for no apparent reason.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

CNN is reviving the Crossfire shoutfest with Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, and Van Jones as hosts.

First Quarter economic growth was weaker than originally estimated. What that means for the future is unclear.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

A thirteen hour filibuster by Wendy Davis ran out the clock on a special session of the Texas legislature, apparently defeating an abortion bill that passed 19-10 after time expired.

The Egyptian military appears to be signalling that its patience for political chaos may be running short.

We’re paying a lot of money for defense contractors. It’s not clear how much of this is wasteful.

To a large degree, the right seems to have backed down in the marriage wars.

The broadcast networks want to operate under the same FCC guidelines as the cable networks. And they should.

Rather than asking whether it was “worth it,” the important historical question regarding the Civil War is whether it could have been avoided.

This is a problem of culture and leadership that can’t wait.

About $7 billion in military equipment now in Afghanistan will be scrapped rather than returned to the U.S.

The leader of a ministry that has been trying to cure gays since 1976 has announced that he’s gay.

Radical Islamists now dominate the Syrian opposition. And you’re arming them.

Going from flying a real airplane to operating a drone in Alamagordo sucks.

Are two parking spaces in Boston really worth $560,000? According to an auction earlier this week they are.

If there’s a Hell, somebody’s going to go there.

Do bad habits make bad people?

As if the region didn’t have enough problems.

Allegations of wrongdoing and cover-up at Foggy Bottom.

The economy is so bad there’s a thriving business in tire rental.

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

Seen whilst on a run by commenter john personna

Have we all been fooled by a 75 year old marketing campaign?

In what may be the worst sales pitch in history, President Obama says, “”If people don’t trust the executive branch, and also congress and the judicial branch, then we’re going to have some problems here.”