Outside the Beltway

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Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

A much better Second Quarter.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

School.

The Grey Lady sees the light on a major part of the War On Drugs.

Our laws and social norms have not caught up to modern life.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

Another incident involving a Malaysia Airlines 777, but this one could be far more serious.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

It seems improbable, but the national landscape on same-sex marriage is changing so quickly that even the Republican Party may find itself changing faster than some might think.

A case pending in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. could pose new legal problems for the Affordable Care Act

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

Things look to be going from bad to worse in Gaza.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

There’s a declared winner in Afghanistan’s Presidential Election, but a cloud hangs over the results.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

Another area where the law has not caught up with technology.

The first episode of “Seinfeld” aired 25 years ago yesterday.

In previewing a story about an Arkansas town fighting to keep phone booths, The New York Times explains what those are.

A new app allows customers to cut the restaurant reservation line. What could go wrong?

As the medium matures, something important is being lost.

Could a transcription error be changing our understanding of America’s founding document?

Target is the latest business to ask customers to leave the guns at home when they go shopping.

One of the most repeated comments about the 2016 race is based on something that just isn’t true.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

Native American names are everywhere.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

A century later, the shots fired in Sarajevo 100 years ago still echo.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

Mike Bloomberg’s absurd soda ban is, thankfully, dead.

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