Outside the Beltway

It’s been suggested that subjecting women to a possible draft would make leaders less likely to go to war. Unfortunately, there’s no reason to believe this is true.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

Reports of discrepancies in the counting of ballots in the Democratic Caucus in Iowa reveal yet again why the caucus process is outdated and ought to be abandoned.

Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are leaving after a dispute with their chief investor.

Thirty years ago this week, tragedy struck America’s Space Program.

As autonomous vehicles near the point where they’ll become a presence on American roads, are we approaching a day when it will largely be illegal for people to drive their own car?

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.

The North Koreans claim to have made a major advance in their nuclear weapons program, but there are many reasons to be skeptical.

The gun control regulations to be announced later today by President Obama later today amount to far less than the hype would lead you to believe.

Last night, SpaceX successfully launched a rocket to the edge of space, deployed cargo, and returned to Earth. A huge and potentially revolutionary accomplishment.

Representatives from 195 nations reached an agreement supposedly devoted to addressing global climate change, but it’s really more hype than anything else.

North Korea’s mercurial leader now claims to have thermonuclear weapons, but analysts are saying this is likely braggadocios nonsense.

To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?

You thought Betamax died three decades ago didn’t you?

Thanks apparently in part to body camera footage, two police officers in Louisiana are facing murder charges in the shooting death of a child during a police chase.

Semantics aside, Carson has a clear relationship with a company whose products are nothing but junk science.

Gross Domestic Product grew at a sluggish 1.5% in the just-concluded Third Quarter, calling the Federal Reserve’s apparent plan to raise interest rates at some point even further into question.

The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.

A Dutch inquiry has largely confirmed what was widely believed about the fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.

September’s Jobs Report was disappointing to say the least, and calls into question the Federal Reserve’s apparent plan to raise interest rates in the near future.

NASA had a potentially significant announcement today.

The final effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal failed in the Senate yesterday, meaning that the deal will now move forward.

A teenager in North Carolina is facing serious criminal charges in another absurd overreaction to teenager “sexting.”

Scott Walker and Chris Christie apparently think that the key to turning around their dying campaigns is to pander to the people supporting Donald Trump’s anti-immigration platform.

Donald Trump’s support in the polls appears to become coming largely from people who don’t typically vote in primary elections.

Hillary Clinton’s own campaign admits she “didn’t think it through” when she decided to use a private email server as Secretary of State.

Hillary Clinton has turned over her private email server in the wake of reports about highly classified information in her email.

A company you probably thought had died off years ago filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday.

President Obama’s confrontational approach to opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal ignores legitimate questions.

The F.B.I. seems to be looking in to just how secure. Hillary Clinton’s private email server was while she was Secretary of State.

The U.N. Security Council has approved the Iranian nuclear deal, and now the ball is in Congress’s court.

Trips to the airport will now be even more fun.

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.

New information in the Dylann Roof case shows that the background check system used for gun purchases is still prone to human error.

The unqualified hack who led OPM while China stole 21 million sensitive personnel files has finally resigned.

Wherein I take the view that as our understanding of language changes, so too does our application of the Constiution.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Taylor Swift is taking a stand against Apple’s new streaming music service, and she’s largely right.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

Jawbone is suing Fitbit for infringing a patent that should never have been granted.