Outside the Beltway

Last month, a retired Navy SEAL came out as transgender. Those still in uniform, however, must serve in silence.

The complicated issues surrounding U.S. aid to Egypt.

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

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

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

Ann Coulter: a blonder version of Pat Buchanan

There’s simply no question that a person born abroad to a US citizen is a ‘natural-born Citizen.’

The world oil markets aren’t too far away from being hit by the shock of massively increased demand from China. Somehow, we’ll have to adapt.

The Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team has canceled the rest of its 2013 season in response to budget cuts.

The Defense Of Marriage Act didn’t fare very well during today’s Supreme Court oral arguments.

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

A rich child is 45 percent more likely to earn a four-year college degree than a poor one.

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

American politicians are using China as a scapegoat for America’s problems.

Increasingly, the right of people to speak is being sacrificed in the name of “tolerance” and “security.”

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

According to a new report, the CIA considers Israel to be an espionage threat.

Nicholas Kristoff figures that, if we can’t ban guns, we can at least make them safer.

“The average Canadian has quietly become richer than the average American,” claims a pro-Canada organization.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

If the GOP wins in November, there will be very few actual barriers in the way if they really want to repeal the PPACA.

Are the Stuxnet and Flame attacks the opening shots in a dangerous new era of secret war?

Two centuries ago, a war that makes less and less sense with the passage of time began.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

The cause of the pain you’re feeling at the pump has little to do with domestic energy policy.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.