Outside the Beltway

Lizbeth Mateo, an attorney and immigrant rights activist, will serve on a California board helping disadvantaged students.

The Stormy Daniels/Donald Trump story will break open wide on 60 Minutes next weekend.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

ProPublica has retracted an explosive but erroneous report about the nominee to be the next CIA Director.

Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to enter a new phase, with a focus on the President’s business dealings with Russia.

After a year in space, Astronaut Scott Kelly was no longer 100% genetically identical to his twin brother. However, the changes are not as significant as initial media reports made them out to be.

Republicans are claiming that Conor Lamb won Tuesday’s Special Election in Pennsylvania because he campaigned as a conservative. These people are either deluded or lying.

The Treasury Department has designated five entities and 19 individuals tied to the Russian government for cyber espionage.

The selection of Mike Pompeo as the next Secretary of State makes it more likely that President Trump will take the foolish and dangerous step of withdrawing the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran.

According to one insider, “There’s no leadership, no trust, no direction and this point there’s very little hope.”

Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.

Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.

Another Federal Court has ruled in favor of a student seeking to use the restroom facilities that correspond with their gender identity.

Yet another example of the foolishness of having firearms in the schoolhouse.

Congress is no closer to a resolution of the DACA fix than it was earlier this year.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

Theresa May has expelled 23 Russian diplomats and convened the North Atlantic Council.

Stephen Hawking possessed one of the greatest minds in history, but he will likely be most remembered for not letting a debilitating disease stop him from contributing to our understanding of the universe.

While examples of Hollywood sexism are seemingly endless, this is not one of them.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

By all accounts, Gina Haspel is exceedingly well qualified to be the next C.I.A. Director, but she has a troubling past that the Senate will need to at least force her to answer questions about.

While the nature of Rex Tillerson’s firing as Secretary of State was shocking in its abruptness, taken in context with the rocky nature of his tenure it was hardly surprising.

The British prime minister and outgoing US Secretary of State declared a red line crossed. There’s no reason to think this White House will follow through.

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

Next up: Pompeo

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.

Tomorrow’s Special Election in Pennsylvania isn’t looking good for Republicans, even if their candidate manages to eke out a win.

By threatening to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, Donald Trump is making it far less likely that any upcoming talks with North Korea will succeed.

Absent changes in policy, the nation’s most hallowed military cemetery will run out of space in two decades.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.

The industry is using speaker fees to reward physicians who prescribe the most.

Service members deployed to Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Uganda qualify.

Talking to adversaries is a good idea. Of course, it matters how it is done.

It is a fair question. But judging the Trump administration on tax cuts, Gorsuch, and the DJIA is to ignore a lot of profound problems.

Anderson Cooper has interviewed adult film star Stormy Daniels for 60 Minutes, but lawyers for President Trump are apparently considering legal action to stop the report from airing.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

The senior Senator from Massachusetts denies interest in 2020 but won’t promise to serve out a new Senate term.

An estimated 200,000 Americans have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Dental professionals are 23 times more likely to be afflicted.

A majority of Americans say their lives are not “disrupted” by the time change. They’re wrong.

This is from the band Jack Levitt off their 2007 release “Conversations With A Chupacabra.”

Within hours after the new Florida gun law was signed by Governor Rick Scott, the National Rifle Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to strike it down.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

The President tried bringing something akin to a traditional policy process to the White House. Now he’s rebelling against it.

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

CJR’s Dan Mitchell has a tiny quibble with a recent viral NYT thumbsucker.