Outside the Beltway

Two states are creating a voting system that will make some people ineligible to vote in state and local elections.

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

There seems to be at least some hope for a temporary deal in Washington to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, but don’t count your chickens just yet.

Republicans appear to be uniting behind a short-term plan to deal with the debt ceiling, but seem okay with keeping the government shutdown going forward.

There’s no denying it now. The GOP is being harmed by the events in Washington far more than the President and Democrats in general.

63% are angry at Republicans, 57% are angry at Democrats, and 53% are angry at President Obama.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

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

Day One of the Obamacare online “marketplaces” is proving to be a bit of a bumpy ride.

The GOP seems perfectly fine with risking a shutdown, even though polling shows they’d pay the biggest price for it.

Eleanor Clift reflects on her “final issue after 50 years at Newsweek.”

President Obama spoke with Iranian President Rouhani today, the first such contact between the nations in 34 years.

Can differences in media coverage of two unrelated filibusters be explained solely by media bias?

Exit, Sandman

Republicans reportedly have another plan to get what they want on Obamacare and other issues.

Once dominant atop the smartphone market, Blackberry seems to be counting out the days until its demise.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

The world changed significantly twelve years ago today. Will it ever change back even a little bit?

A gun rights victory at the ballot box in Colorado.

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

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

President Obama is trying to launch a war but there’s a lot of competition for attention.

Given that the vote count seems to be heading that way, this is a question worth examination.

Not surprisingly, Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are lining up behind the President in the debate over Syria.

Managers want their employees to get off email and pick up the phone.

Once, against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it clear she isn’t going anywhere.

Some thoughts on reform.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

Author Elmore Leonard has died at the age of 87.

Andrew Bacevich argues, persuasively, that “absence of leverage does not preclude options” with respect to Egypt.

A Federal Judge has declared the NYPD’s “stop & frisk” policy to be unconstitutional.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.