Outside the Beltway

The current Congress is on pace to pass fewer laws and bills than any since the end of World War II. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

What if the jobless recovery is but the beginning of a trend?

Don’t expect much out of Congress for the rest of 2014, or for the two years after that either.

Please, for accuracy’s sake, figure inflation into discussions of the history of the minimum wage.

The President’s sixth State Of The Union Address was fairly low-key.

Chris Christie did as well as expected last night, but that’s just the beginning.

A negligible price hike of hamburgers might enable fast food outlets to pay their workers much better.

As expected, President Obama’s latest “pivot” to the economy is less than meets the eye.

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

The GOP isn’t going to solve it’s problems solely by concentrating on “messaging.”

One major factor in the skyrocketing cost of a college education in America is a huge increase in overhead costs.

The major you choose in college will have an impact on your future.

Revisiting a lively debate from over the weekend.

Barack Obama now looks to the Rough Rider himself for inspiration. Can’t he find it himself?

It turns out there are some jobs immigrants will do, but Americans won’t

How would a Democrat-equivalent of Rick Perry be received?

Taking an initial look into the Texas economy.

Workers picketing a Chicago Hyatt hotel yesterday got an unpleasant surprise: Heat lamps.

Byron York had some not unreasonable questions for Susan Feinberg, the woman who confronted Paul Ryan over $350 wine he consumed at a Capitol Hill restaurant. She won’t answer.

So, apparently, Paul Ryan has expensive tastes in wine.

While it’s always dangerous to extrapolate too much from high profile cases to the system as a whole, the strange case of Dominque Strauss-Kahn practically invites it.

It’s hard to get paid for work others will do for nothing.

At what point does the legitimate right to demonstrate cross the line into infringing on the rights of others?

Have credit cards and ATMs eliminated the value of large currency zones?

Don Surber imagines this edition of “Hardball.”

Many Congressional Democrats both campaign for a higher minimum wage and employ interns at less than the existing minimum wage, many for no pay at all.

The UFCW of Nevada pays temporary workers minimum wage to demand fair treatment and wages from Wal-Mart.

Unpaid internships aren’t education and give kids of wealthy, well connected parents even more advantages. Should we get rid of them?