Outside the Beltway

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

The Senate moved last night to end the airport delays caused by furloughing air traffic controllers.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

There are far too many appointed positions in the US government. And many of them are unfilled.

There’s bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill that they don’t want to participate in ObamaCare.

The Senate’s rejection of the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill isn’t particularly outraging the general public, according to a new poll.

The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.

It would be nice if columnists for major newspapers would consult political science, rather than Hollywood, for their understanding of our system.

Big Brother is watching us. And he may be watching us a lot more after what happened in Boston.

Another Senator wants to delay immigration reform because of the attacks in Boston.

If you want to understand contemporary politics, the last thing you should do is reference an Andrew Sorkin project.

The GOP’s most promising alternative to Mitt Romney in 2012 may run again in 2016, but it doesn’t seem like he’d go very far.

For better or worse, the attack in Boston is likely to have an impact on the immigration reform debate.

What Miranda does and does not cover and what consequences follow if police do not comply.

A strange loophole in the law means Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be questioned without being advised of his Miranda Rights.

The odds that any of the Senators who voted no on Manchin/Toomey will pay a political price for doing so is low.

“Mark Sanford walked out on us, violated our trust … maybe Mark Sanford should just keep walking.”

The filibuster is now so commonplace that it’s baked into the expectations.

Gabby Giffords writes an emotional diatribe filled with non sequiturs that does nothing to advance the debate.

Prominent female athletes have been able to be openly gay for decades. Why can’t their male counterparts?

If you expose your breasts in rural Georgia but have a penis, jailers are liable to think you’re a dude and make fun of you.