Outside the Beltway

Some thoughts on a decade old video in which Samantha Power speculates on actions to take against an unfolding genocide.

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

The Oval Office Address, once a common tool of the Presidency, has been in declining use of late.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

Shocking news out of California.

Faster than many expected, same-sex marriage became the law again in California late yesterday.

The Supreme Court’s handling of standing in the two same-sex marriage cases likely seems contradictory to many outside observers.

Some really bad advice for the GOP.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

The Court may have “punted” the Proposition 8 ruling, but it is likely to have a wide-ranging impact both in California and nationwide.

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

On the whole, a complete victory for advocates of same-sex marriage today at the Supreme Court.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

A Colorado 6-year-old with a penis has successfully sued for the right to use the girls’ restroom.

The Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action in education didn’t go as far as many thought it would, but it’s future in the near-term seems fairly clear.

Just when you thought the sequestration process couldn’t get more cynical.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Cory Booker is in the race for New Jersey’s open Senate seat, but is he really unbeatable?

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

Facebook billionaire Sean Parker wanted an elaborate wedding based on the Lord of the Rings and wasn’t going to let little things like the law or some environmental damage stop him.

Yesterday, I noted that the theme park business is booming and suggested that, based on how crowded the parks are, Disney should raise their prices. It turns out that they had done just that the night before.

Despite a sluggish economy, Americans are flocking to theme parks and spending big bucks to stand in line.

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

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

It’s going to be another eventful month for the Supreme Court.

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.