Outside the Beltway

Possibly a big week for the Supreme Court.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have much sympathy for her former aide’s inability to “have it all.”

Another loss in the Federal Courts for the Defense Of Marriage Act.

Shannon Eastin has become the first woman to officiate an NFL game, thanks to the lockout of the regular referees.

The Defense of Marriage Act is under challenge through a unique angle: estate taxes.

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

National Review’s Keith Williamson can’t fathom why Alpha Male Mitt Romney is having so much trouble beating Girly Man Barack Obama.

The GOP Platform will include an abortion plank that Todd Akin would love.

While Republicans talk about family values, Chuck Schumer is busy promoting them one staffer at a time.

How dominant were America’s women in the London Olympics? They’d have come in fourth place in the medal count in the US sent separate men’s and women’s teams.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

Tammy Smith has been promoted to brigadier general, thus becoming the first American general officer who also happens to be openly gay.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

Cover Girl model Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing match.

Nate Jones asks, “What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball?”

While women are more visible at the 2012 Olympics than any past games, there are still cries of “sexism.”

The fact that someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re evil

One would think that people who have decided that commenting on a political blog under their own name isn’t worth the risk of blowback would feel a certain sympathy for a scientist-astronaut who values her privacy deciding not to tell the world she was gay.

Andrew Sullivan believes Sally Ride “had a chance to expand people’s horizons and young lesbians’ hope and self-esteem, and she chose not to.”

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died yesterday aged 61. Her obituary revealed that she was gay.

In a stunning reversal of policy, DOD is allowing soldiers to march in a gay pride parade in uniform.

We’ve reached the point where public figures coming out of the closet is barely news anymore, and that’s a good thing.

I’ve joined The Atlantic’s debate over a thought-provoking cover story by Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Mary Cheney has married longtime partner Heather Poe.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

In March, Janet Wolfenbarger became the first female four-star general in Air Force history. Now, she’s assumed command of all Air Force weapons programs.

The arguments behind the Paycheck Fairness Act do not hold up to scrutiny.