Outside the Beltway

Recent comments from an FDA official raise the prospect that the agency is considering minor’s access to caffeinated beverages.

Coffee makes you smarter, burns fat, and is good for your liver.

Government-mandated paid sick leave might improve both public health and the American economy.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

So, apparently there’s a shortage of the goop that turns coffee into a $4 pumpkin-flavored milkshake. And grown ass men are upset about it.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

An object lesson in bureaucracy and the reason why infrastructure projects aren’t as easy to complete as some think.

Does talent spawn growth? Or does growth attract talent?

New York City’s Mayor wants to control the size of soft drinks.

The Wall Street Journal publishes a screed aimed at those about to graduate college.

What does it mean to have a limited government?

What are the limits on government power?

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Sometimes there was no sugar or Splenda for coffee. On chicken wing night, wings were rationed at six per person.

Bad Newt is back.

Heading into the last day of campaigning, the race in Iowa is too close to call.

The capacity of some people to look the other way in the face of evil is astounding.

A gay man claims Newt Gingrich told him to vote for Obama.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

Even those sympathetic to the causes are frustrated with the squalor and other negative externalities of the protests.

Does the state have the right to regulate how many people you invite to your home?

It turns out DOJ didn’t have $16 muffins after all–they were just charged $16 for each muffin.

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop.

The Telegraph’s chief political commentator sees moral decay at the top as well as the bottom.