Outside the Beltway

Examining SECDEF’s call for radical overhaul of our defense structure against the fate of similar calls past.

The American people no longer seem to care if their political leaders are divorced.

The days of free news on the Internet may be coming to an end.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

Illegal aliens will henceforth be be called, well, something.

Apparently, today’s youth no longer know how to have good sex on account of they’re having too much sex.

Robert Farley takes a shot across the bow at the academy from the pages of one of his field’s most prestigious journals.

In one of the lamer April Fools’ jokes in a while, Twitter has announced Twttr

Ross Douthat bemoans the evolution of American cultural norms over the past fifteen years.

The “social web” was with us long before the rise of Facebook, Twitter and its kind and that the old style sharing is actually much more important than the new.

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

The Army has ruled, correctly, that the victims of Major Nidal Hassan are not entitled to the Purple Heart.

Mal Moore, who was part of ten football championships at Alabama, has died at 73.

Election rules should be oriented towards increasing participation, not based on partisan calculations.

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes uses a quota system to make sure his guests aren’t all white dudes.

Apparently, some significant number of people are starving themselves to “save calories” for getting drunk.

If kids practiced French two hours a day . . .

Susan Patton, president of Princeton’s Class of 1977, offers some retro advice to her successors: Find a husband while you’re still in school.