Outside the Beltway

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took responsibility for the 7-1 loss to Germany.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

There may be no resolution to what has become the most expensive search in history.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

The Economist reports that “The coffee insurgency” is winning.

No previously published works have entered the US Public Domain since 1978. And none are scheduled to enter until 1923. So what are we missing?

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

Just as the auto industry has, painfully, had to learn to adapt to a new world, the city will as well even if that means becoming a shadow of its former self.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

A Brazilian soccer referee was tortured and beheaded after fatally stabbing a player.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

Even the national sport is arousing the anger of the protesters in Brazil.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

The same story yet again.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

A Brazilian group is suing Apple for making its iPads better too quickly.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

A Washington Post fact check calls this “true but false.”

Welcome technological change, or crony capitalism?