Outside the Beltway

A once rising GOP star hits bottom.

A lower court judge has upheld the Louisiana Constitution’s limitation of marriage to “one man and one woman.”

Michele Willens wonders, “When Did We Get So Old?”

One analyst thinks that the predictions of a Republican Senate in 2014 are wildly optimistic.

A major escalation.

There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?

We should not tolerate them acting otherwise.

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

There are plenty of other factors that help our two major parties retain power.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

Wikipedia is refusing to recognize a photographer’s copyright claim because a monkey took the picture.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

While not as big as previous months, the July Jobs Report was still mostly good news.

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

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.