Outside the Beltway

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The prominent media critic will no longer bother criticizing CNN for not living up to the standards of the profession.

A privacy rights group has filed a Petition with the Supreme Court regarding recent actions by the FISA Court.

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

A decade ago. a certain New York Times columnist was more right than your humble host.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

A case from Nevada provides another example of police abuse, and a possible claim arising under the long-forgotten Third Amendment.

June’s Jobs Report was healthy, but the economy still needs to do better.

The GOP is going to have to come up with a lot more than just age if they end up facing off against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

Doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Senate passed an immigration reform bill today, but it’s not going to go anywhere.

The 5-4 ruling was much more sweeping than needed to strike down DOMA.

CNN is reviving the Crossfire shoutfest with Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, and Van Jones as hosts.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

To a large degree, the right seems to have backed down in the marriage wars.

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.

Just when you thought the sequestration process couldn’t get more cynical.

The traditional tools used by hiring managers to find employees don’t work.

A new Congressional Budget Office report finds real economic benefits from immigration reform.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

George Zimmer, the founder and public face of Men’s Wearhouse since 1973, has been fired as CEO.

A song written when Grover Cleveland was President is still protected by Copyright Law. That makes no sense at all.

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.

Thanks to those new electronic cigarettes, ads for cigarettes are back on television for the first time since the Nixon Administration.

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

The Administration has accepted reality in its fight against a ruling that made the “morning after” pill available regardless of age.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Have we all been fooled by a 75 year old marketing campaign?

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is under fire for academic fraud.