Outside the Beltway

Looking into uncontested and partially contest House districts from the 2014 cycle.

Americans have wildly distorted understandings of the society around them.

Good news for two released Americans, but no clue what’s motivating North Korea’s latest actions.

We are obviously moving toward an era of streaming and other services that don’t rely on Cable/Satellite providers, but it will still take some time to get there and for it to be cost effective.

Another setback for commercial space ventures, the second this week and this time with tragic consequences.

After an avalanche of negative commentary, the Governors of New York and New Jersey have modified their policy regarding quarantining people returning from west Africa.

Another school shooting.

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

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.

A travel ban sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions, though, it becomes far less appealing when you think about the details.

President Obama has appointed an “Ebola Czar,” but it’s unclear why we need one when there are already people who are supposed to be in charge of the Ebola response.

More Ebola news that could have a negative impact on public opinion.

Poor Joe Biden can’t stay out of the news. This time, it’s not one of his gaffes but one by his youngest son.

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

Individual polls are likely to be volatile, so don’t pay too much attention to them.

ISIS at the Gates Edition.

A desperation move by NBC News?

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Two weeks after it seemed to be tightening, there are signs the battle for control of the Senate may be moving in the GOP’s direction.

The American public’s support for the President’s war against ISIS has its limits.

Facts are stubborn things.

Only one man can say that he has both recorded a jazz album with Lady Gaga and liberated a Nazi death camp.

Freedom Of The Press, if you can afford to pay the fee.

Republicans still have an advantage, but Democrats seem to be holding their own in the battle for Senate control.

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

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

In what would be a classic bit of political irony, polling indicates that the House lawsuit against the President could make Democrats more likely to vote in November.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

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

Americans have become deeply cynical about government. To some extent that is a good thing, but it’s reaching unhealthy levels.

The current immigration debate is yet another great example of how our system works (so to speak).

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

The Israeli public if overwhelmingly behind the war in Gaza, and that means it will probably continue for awhile.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Add Libya to the list of the world’s trouble spots.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.