Outside the Beltway

NYU’s Geoffrey Miller has done a groundbreaking study connecting obesity, and particularly the consumption of simple carbohydrates, with failure to complete doctoral dissertations.

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

While most of us buy homeowner’s insurance to protect against storm damage and theft, injuries caused by dogs account for a third of all damage payouts.

When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?

Apparently, our biggest problem in America is now the name of an NFL franchise.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

Anthony Weiner’s campaign for Mayor Of New York isn’t exactly getting off on the right foot.

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

We rely on death certificates for epidemiology studies. But they’re incredibly unreliable.

Large numbers of younger workers are having trouble finding work in many parts of the developed world.

The noted wine critic Robert Parker recently forayed into reviewing bourbon and came under intense fire from enthusiasts of American whiskey.

POLITICO is joining the stampede toward metered paywalls. In a twist, it will remain free in regions where it’s most popular.

The reality of gun violence in the United States is far different from the story the media is telling us.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?

The world’s first entirely 3-D printed gun is now a reality.

The American people aren’t panicking.

The April Jobs Report was good, but not exactly anything to write home about.

The FDA has modified it’s rules on the availability of a politically controversial form of birth control.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

New questions about the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.