Outside the Beltway

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.

A San Francisco bacon restaurant smells like bacon. Thankfully, a compromise has been reached.

Is someone who’s only be a Senator for just over 100 days a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2016?

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.