Outside the Beltway

CNN’s effort to bring back a show that had outlived its prime years ago has, predictably, failed.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

MSNBC’s attempt to be the liberal Fox News isn’t working.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

For the first time, someone has been diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

A new poll indicates that NFL fans plan to keep watching despite the recent domestic abuse scandals.

The fact that a candidate like Mike Huckabee could win the Iowa Caucuses is the reason to end the Iowa Caucuses.

There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

Congressional elections have become “nationalized” to a far greater extent than they have ever been.

A new job for the Congressman recently filed by his own constituents?

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.

The junior Senator from Florida drops some hints.

Who watches Sunday morning talk shows anymore?

Adding paywalls isn’t stopping the decline of the newspaper industry.

Could economic chaos bring Egyptians back out into the streets?

At least on Capitol Hill, the political middle is dead and buried.

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

A bunch of people talking on cellphones during a plane flight would annoy the heck out of me, but the government shouldn’t be involved in deciding if it should be allowed.

The Fox News Channel created “War On Christmas” officially entered the absurd zone last week.

Yesterday’s change to the filibuster rule is likely to have little impact outside the beltway and the political chattering class.

Ted Cruz isn’t ruling out a reprise of his foolish, quixotic, crusade.

The real world impact of what’s happening in Washington is becoming apparent.

One cannot support the shutdown tactic and then be outraged that part of the government is shutdown.

Can differences in media coverage of two unrelated filibusters be explained solely by media bias?

Surprisingly, many pundits on the left don’t seem too thrilled about the idea of a Senator Cory Booker.

Three years after joining The New York Times, Nate Silver is jumping ship to Disney’s ESPN and ABC.

Despite yesterday’s tragic events in San Francisco, flying by plane remains the safest way to travel.

Public trust in the news media, along with many other institutions, continues to fall. That’s troublesome for many reasons.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

Tragedy in Boston.

A mix of media and abortion politics.