Outside the Beltway

We’ve handed off operations in Helmand Province to the Afghanistan army.

After an avalanche of negative commentary, the Governors of New York and New Jersey have modified their policy regarding quarantining people returning from west Africa.

The first person to be quarantined under the new policy announced by New York and New Jersey is raising concerns about the way she was treated, and whether the policy is even the right idea.

In many states, there aren’t really any races at all this year even if both parties have candidates on the ballot.

A Google Executive jumps from the edge of space, breaking a record.

Not surprisingly a Federal Judge has blocked New Jersey’s latest effort to legalize sports gaming. As a matter of policy, though, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be legal to place wagers on sporting events.

It’s been three months, but there’s been no action on the lawsuit that the House of Representatives said it was filing against President Obama.

The most bizarre race of 2014 is finally over.

A surprise move from Governors Christie and Cuomo that sounds like a good idea but may not be as effective, or legal, as it sounds.

Another school shooting.

A Federal Judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Tea Party groups over the IRS targeting scandal.

Have digital books rendered the publishing houses obsolete?

A new outbreak, or hopefully just an isolated case.

An idea whose time has come? Not really.

All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.

What if the Grand Jury investigating the Michael Brown shooting fails to indict Officer Darren Wilson? We may find out if newly leaked evidence is accurate.

The N.F.L. and the British Government are both behind the idea of a franchise in London, but the idea doesn’t really make sense for the league, or the game.

Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.

Polls continue to show that most Americans are largely tuning the midterms out.

Early voting is a still new idea in the United States, but one that has quickly spread to a majority of states. But, is it a good idea?

Who should own antiquity?

There’s at least a 50-50 chance we won’t know who controls the Senate until weeks after Election Day.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

CNN’s effort to bring back a show that had outlived its prime years ago has, predictably, failed.

America’s federal workforce is increasingly disenchanted.

New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.

A collision between marriage equality and religious liberty, but it seems clear that religious liberty should win this one.

Yahoo has given a click-bait headline to a Reuters report, “Obama makes rare campaign trail appearance, people leave early.”