Outside the Beltway

Christina Hoff Summers argues that America needs to fix the way we educate boys.

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

The Supreme Court seems likely to severely limit the use of race-based preferences at public universities

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

Polling racial attitudes and its linkage to support fro voter ID laws.

Farhad Manjoo is trying the demo version of Microsoft Word 2013—which he likes—but notices something out of place.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

Either the majority and dissenting opinions in NFIB v. Sebelius were among the sloppiest in Supreme Court history or the Chief Justice switched sides at the 11th hour.

Regardless of how the Court rules on the Affordable Care Act, the upcoming election has the potential to reshape the Court for decades to come.

The case against Proposition 8 is headed to the Supreme Court.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Once again, the punditocracy is bemoaning the rise of so-called “negative campaigning.”

So what was it: taken out of context or written by someone else?

Listing affiliation with gay activist groups hinders one’s chances of landing a job interview.

Do the less attractive deserve legal protection? One University Of Texas Profess thinks so.

You thought you’d seen the worst of Congress in July? Oh, you silly American you.

A few liberal law professors say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should resign now so President Obama can pick her successor.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

Cynthia Tucker regrets her support for majority-minority districts.

Trump continues his antics: pulling out 2008 campaign memes and doing his best to paint Obama as a mysterious “other.”

As noted recently, whites are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. Some black Democrats think it’s time to take affirmative action.

For the first time in 35 years, the Senate may finally be on the verge of reforming the filibuster.

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley wants to fix the filibuster by making Senators actually filibuster. It’s a good idea.

Once again, the political media is wringing it’s hands over “negative” ads. As usual, it’s all a bunch of nonsense.

For the first time ever, white students do not make up a majority among freshmen at the University of Texas at Austin.

The concentration of policy wonks in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor produces skewed analysis.

Jim Webb argues that we should stop measuring diversity by race alone.

Rural whites are outperformed by Jews and Asians and passed over by blacks and Hispanics in the name of “diversity” by elite universities.

When it comes to the Supreme Court, most Americans have no idea what they’re talking about.