Outside the Beltway

The president says we should honor Trayvon Martin by preventing similar tragedies in the future.

The jury likely got it right. That doesn’t mean George Zimmerman didn’t kill Trayvon Martin or that Martin deserved to die.

The prominent media critic will no longer bother criticizing CNN for not living up to the standards of the profession.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says revealing that the United States is spying on its allies has undermined their trust.

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

CNN is reviving the Crossfire shoutfest with Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, and Van Jones as hosts.

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

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Today is the deadline for Darryl Issa to respond to a request from Elijah Cummings to defend a decision not to release IRS interview transcripts. What happens if Issa doesn’t respond?

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

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

The United Nations has documented 92,901 dead in Syria’s civil war.

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

The former NFL wideout formerly known as Chad Ochocinco will spend a month in jail for patting his lawyer on the fanny.

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

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

Just about all of the substantive information in the excerpts was already revealed in the TIGTA audit.

The same story yet again.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of CNN’s Headline News staged a bizarre split-screen interview on two breaking true crime stories despite being 30 feet from one another in the same parking lot.

The American people aren’t panicking.

John McCain’s problems in 2008 went far beyond an economic crisis.