Outside the Beltway

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

Shutting down media that the government doesn’t like is unlikely to solve the sectarian problems in Iraq.

After months of impasse, a new coalition has been formed in Italy.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

John McCain’s problems in 2008 went far beyond an economic crisis.

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

Think Progress continues a silly meme: “12 programs that Congress cares less about than averting flight delays.”

The economy grew in the first quarter of 2013, but the numbers were far from impressive.

Legendary country music singer George Jones has died, aged 81.

A McDonald’s hamburger has been in a man’s car trunk since 1999. It still looks and smells the same as the day he bought it, minus the pickle.

The Examiner’s James Simpson makes a perfectly valid point in the most dishonest way with his chart “Sequester fraud in one picture.”

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.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.

Bill Clinton is on Twitter for reals.

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