Outside the Beltway

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

The famous “double helix” article was published 59 years ago today. It’s worth a look.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”

There are advantages to cash that electronic transactions cannot replicate.

The body of Corporal Patrick R. Glennon will be returned to his family for burial, 52 years after he was declared missing in action in Korea.

Newt Gingrich is morally and intellectually bankrupt, so perhaps it’s no surprise that his health care think tank is now fiscally bankrupt.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

Through a stroke of bad luck, the Atlantic Council server was down during a critical Google update

A new book would classify most of us who consume alcohol as “almost alcoholics.”

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

Most of us with iPhone 4’s use Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant–but for a very limited range of tasks.

Like it or not, what you do online will be of interest to someone looking to hire you.

TV gave us the world’s first bionic man in 1973. Science is way behind.

Dharun Ravi was convicted of bias intimidation toward Tyler Clementi. It’s not at all clear that he should have been.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Romney eked out a win in the Michigan primary. He’s going to have a harder time there in November.

Rick Santorum sounds like someone applying for a job in a religious institution, not someone running to be the President of the United States.

Unlike TV, real life medical examiners take weeks, even months, to establish a cause of death.

Contrary to myth, the USA is still a major manufacturing power. But the factory has changed radically.

Censorship or sound business practice?

Wait until you hear about Newt Gingrich’s new out of this world idea.

It’s pretty much a dead heat in Florida between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

A Federal Judge deals with the clash between individual rights, law enforcement, and technology.

Mitt Romney is making claims about Naval readiness that are, at best, misleading.

The Supreme Court issued a somewhat muddled ruling on GPS tracking today.

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

Should journalists report things they happen to overhear in a public place?

This year’s Iowa Caucuses stand as Exhibit A for an argument against Iowa being first in the nation.