Outside the Beltway

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Largely because they are resisting efforts to hold them accountable for their performance, Chicago’s teachers are leaving 400,000 students locked out of school.

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

A new lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary seeks to bar Apple from importing it’s most popular products into the United States.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

Sometimes, we just ought to accept the fact that people have disagreements when it comes to hot-button social issues.

One Chicago politician is using clearly unconstitutional tactics in the political war on Chick-fil-A

The Supreme Court left the most important part of SB1070 intact, but it faces serious challenges in the future.

Both candidates are telling the public that they can change the way Washington works. They’re both setting themselves up to be the source of major disappointment.

Chuck Shumer wants to force airlines to let families sit together for free.

Illinois wants to solve its Medicaid problem by hoping its citizens smoke more cigarettes.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Did Joe Biden misspeak, or drop a hint that he shouldn’t have?

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

We won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore.

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.

Rick Santorum won Louisiana last night, but he’s still going to lose the race for the nomination.

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

Romney easily has more delegates than all of his opponents combined.

Mitt Romney won big in Illinois last night, and moved a big step closer to wrapping this race up.

The argument over contraceptive coverage mandates has not gone well for conservatives.

There will be no more GOP candidate debates. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

It looks like we’ll have Newt Gingrich to kick around for awhile.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.

It is a curious thing, sometimes, to look at how different people interpret events.

Last night’s results ensure the race will continue to the convention.