Outside the Beltway

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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A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

After appearing to be at the end of his political career, Thad Cochran has pulled off a surprising victory over his Tea Party backed challenger.

The evidence is clear. When it comes to the ability to handle foreign crises, the President has lost the public’s confidence.

Hillary Clinton does not come across well when she tries to play the empathy card.

Even the most ideologically divided members of the Supreme Court agree with each other 65% of the time.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

Justice delayed, but justice nonetheless.

The First Amendment protects government employees who testify truthfully.

Ahmed Abu Kattalah, the alleged ringleader of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, has been arrested.

The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that public school graduations in churches are unconstitutional.

Some Republicans apparently think the key to their future lies in the past.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

An unknown Tea Party candidate unexpectedly beat the House Leader in today’s GOP primary.

Thanks largely to Administration mistakes, the Bergdahl deal is not going over well.