Outside the Beltway

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

Three women missing for more than ten years have been found alive, apparently kidnapped by three brothers in Cleveland.

The FBI is looking into Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s relationship with a major donor.

New questions about the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.

The CIA unsuccessfully lobbied to put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest of the Boston Marathon bombers, on the counterterrorism watch list in 2011.

What Miranda does and does not cover and what consequences follow if police do not comply.

A sensational story, little solid information, and instant analysis are a bad combination

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

Targeting terrorist leadership may be counterproductive.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

A federal judge has ruled National Security Letters violate the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees.