Outside the Beltway

Now that he is on the ballot for good, Republicans seem to be giving Todd Akin a second look. That seems unwise.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

The Defense of Marriage Act is under challenge through a unique angle: estate taxes.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

A new study suggests that taxing millionaires sends millionaires to somewhere that doesn’t tax millionaires.

Men who graduate elite universities earn an additional $107,000 lifetime. It costs $234,440 to get a Yale degree.

New York’s Governor is proposing a change in the law that could spare thousands of people a year from an unnecessary trip through the legal system.

The results of Louisiana’s primary mean a lot less than the pundits will tell you they do.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the right is fighting a losing battle.

Meet Rick Santorum, who’s apparently running for Moralist In Chief.

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

Members of Congress are responding to the protests against SOPA and PIPA by withdrawing their support for the bills.

Do the Republican candidates believe that American citizens have a right to privacy? Someone should ask them.

We held Kim’s services this morning. These were my prepared remarks.

The conspiracy by grocery store owners to turn us all into unpaid cashiers may be ending.

The execution of Troy Davis brings back to the forefront the reasons why the death penalty is inherently flawed.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

Senator Al Franken called Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery a liar in yesterday’s hearing on DOMA. Franken was the one being dishonest.

A Presidential candidate’s medical condition is entirely relevant to their fitness for office.

A victory for marriage equality in the Empire State.

The vast majority of the seats in the Virginia legislature will not even be contested this November.

Perhaps understandably, the Anthony Weiner incident seems to have caused some politicians to rethink their Twitter strategy.

Upwards of 77,000 federal employees make more than the governors of the states in which they live, the Congressional Research Service reports.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

Nor, it would seem, are really tired clichés.

The Supreme Court rules that “offensiveness” does not trump the First Amendment. And they’re right.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.