Outside the Beltway

Things don’t seem to be going well for the Affordable Care Act.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

Legislation to ban discrimination in employment against gays and lesbians is set to make major gains in the Senate.

The news that Obama aides discussed a change to the 2012 ticket is part of the latest Halperin/Heilemann campaign history.

Chris Christie’s decision to take a tactical retreat on the issue of same-sex marriage raises some interesting questions for 2016.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

Score one for Team Bush?

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

A major ruling on recognition of same-sex marriages out of Ohio.

The high cost of raising children is making it difficult for many Americans to have multiple children.

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

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

People are looking to New Jersey as the next same-sex marriage battleground, but it’s not going to be an easy fight.

The Supreme Court’s handling of standing in the two same-sex marriage cases likely seems contradictory to many outside observers.

The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.

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

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

The Governor of Massachusetts decided to celebrate a bit after Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev was captured.

Mitt Romney returns from the political graveyard.

A generation of kids with massive student loans and no prospects is bad news for the status quo.

In a fascinating project, four sisters are photographed each year from 1976 to 2010.

The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.

Less than a week after the bomb he planted at the Boston Marathon went off, Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been formally charged in Federal Court.

For better or worse, the attack in Boston is likely to have an impact on the immigration reform debate.