Outside the Beltway

Yesterday’s change to the filibuster rule is likely to have little impact outside the beltway and the political chattering class.

The trends in President Obama’s approval numbers are not moving in the direction he ought to want them to go.

Signs of some progress in the talks over Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

President Obama has apologized for breaking his “If you like your plan, you can keep it” pledge. Does he have anything to be sorry about?

A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Obama’s performance and a whopping 70 percent think the country is moving in the wrong direction.

“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.” Well, not really.

Two veteran reporters, including the dean of the Virginia press corps, have been fired by the AP after falsely reporting that Terry McAuliffe lied to federal authorities.

Absent an unlikely major change, it looks like the Democrats will win the Governor’s race in Virginia

Ted Cruz’s definition of “the American people” needs some refining.

The GOP’s shutdown was about as pointless as a show about waiting for a table in a Chinese restaurant.

The GOP’s approval numbers have fallen like a stone, but it’s unclear whether this will matter in 2014.

Paul Ryan is back, and he has a plan his party ought to be paying attention to.

A tense afternoon on Capitol Hill.

Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.

McAuliffe pulling away?

Even before the Russian curve ball, the public opposition to military strikes on Syria was mounting.

Americans tell pollsters that hate Congress, but they never seem to do anything about it.

Three years after joining The New York Times, Nate Silver is jumping ship to Disney’s ESPN and ABC.

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

The president says we should honor Trayvon Martin by preventing similar tragedies in the future.

The NBC News graphics department failed geography miserably. Here, Brian Williams and company admit the error with grace, charm, and good humor.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

if reports are to be believed, there is a coup d’etat underway in Egypt.

Does David Gregory consider Glenn Greenwald to be a reporter deserving of protection, or “just a blogger” who may be a potential criminal?

The broadcast networks want to operate under the same FCC guidelines as the cable networks. And they should.

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.