Outside the Beltway

A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.

The Supreme Court turns down a case dealing with student’s First Amendment rights.

Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

Lack of understanding or basic dishonesty?

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman succeeds Chuck Hagel.

Thanks to current patent and drug regulation laws, we’re paying up to $2,000 for a drug when there’s a drug that does the same thing for orders of magnitude less.

Was Arafat poisoned? A new report raises some questions, but answers none of them conclusively.

Norman Geras, scholar and blogger extraordinaire, has passed.

The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.

The diary entries of a dying Ulysses S. Grant shed some interesting insights into a different time.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

Three counties in New Mexico are under orders to issue licenses to same-sex couples.

Once, against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it clear she isn’t going anywhere.

Liberal leaders want Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire so President Obama can appoint her successor. She wants to hang around another decade.

Thanks to the Supreme Court, your DNA cannot be patented.

Thanks to those new electronic cigarettes, ads for cigarettes are back on television for the first time since the Nixon Administration.

Scientists have known for years that large quantities of supplemental vitamins can be quite harmful. Yet, the FDA is prohibited by law from telling the public.

If there’s one thing that our generals and admirals agree on it’s that generals and admirals should retain their power.

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

The Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of a case in which Indiana’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood had been blocked by a Federal Court.

Signs and portents in the Middle East.

Will drivers really be okay with Google tracking everywhere they go in their self-driving car?

We rely on death certificates for epidemiology studies. But they’re incredibly unreliable.

Think Progress continues a silly meme: “12 programs that Congress cares less about than averting flight delays.”

Jim Valvano’s famous ESPYs speech was 20 years ago today.