Outside the Beltway

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges by a Florida jury late Saturday night.

Texas has become the latest state to attempt to restrict abortion rights, and North Carolina isn’t far behind.

David Brooks warns that failing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill “could be a tragedy for the country and political suicide for Republicans.”

President Obama is losing public support in the one area where he’s generally had broad support from the public in the past.

The latest House GOP pronouncements on immigration reform make it exceedingly unlikely that any bill will pass this year.

Most deprived subcultures resent those among them who strive too hard to escape–much less succeed.

Sarah Palin hinted about running for Senate in Alaska. Most likely, she’s once again just teasing her supporters.

Harry Reid is supposedly making another run at filibuster reform.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

Could Rick Perry recover from his disastrous 2012 campaign to become a viable candidate?

A privacy rights group has filed a Petition with the Supreme Court regarding recent actions by the FISA Court.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around any more.

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

While the military was ousting Egypt’s democratically elected president, the US Secretary of State was on his yacht.

Forget about the budget deficit and spending. The Tea Party apparently now considers stopping immigration reform to be its most important task.

Contemporary Americans accept actions by the state that were once the cause for revolt.

Yesterday’s coup in Egypt, a day before we celebrate our own independence, reminds us of something else worth celebrating.

Every piece of mail you send and receive is being logged by the Postal Service.

Not surprisingly, Lois Lerner’s attorney is saying his client will only testify under a grant of immunity.

On a slow news day, a major concession on Obamacare

The GOP is going to have to come up with a lot more than just age if they end up facing off against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The future legal impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage was on full display in two cases out of Michigan.

The Texas Legislature is putting up its controversial abortion bill again, but don’t expect things do end the way they did last week.