Outside the Beltway

Compromise in politics involves more than compromising one’s principles.

Getting an American passport will set you back around $230. Is that reasonable?

John P. Wheeler III, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era, has been murdered.

Some people in the D.C. area are worried that the Federal spending gravy train may be coming to an end. They should be.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Christopher Hitchens explains how to make tea.

Despite federal laws banning even prison officials from bringing phones inside, tens of thousands of inmates have smartphones.

Is there a legalization argument building?

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

The next round in the health care reform wars is about to start.

Shania Twain has married Frederic Thiebaud, former husband of Marie-Anne Thiebaud, the woman Twain’s ex-husband Mutt Lange had an affair with.

Will the Tea Party Movement grow up?

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

Wealthy Manhattanites are clamoring for a new status symbol: their own washer and dryer!

Chicago’s next mayor will be either Rahm Emanuel or Carol Moseley Braun.

208 years ago today, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to The Danbury Baptist Association that has resonated through the years.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.

Mr. Yglesias has it exactly backwards.

A somewhat surprising court decision from the European Union gives a glimpse of what the situation in the United States would be if Roe v. Wade were overturned.

Aaron Tobey stripped to his underdrawers in a Richmond, Virginia airport in support of the 4th Amendment.