Outside the Beltway

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

Jake Tapper is moving to CNN, where he’ll host a daily show and run their political coverage.

Robert Bork, the controversial jurist whose failed Supreme Court bid ushered in a new climate in American politics, has died at 85.

Obsessive media coverage makes us believe mass shootings are far more common than they actually are.

Gabrielle Ludwig played college basketball as a man 25 years ago; now, she’s playing as a woman.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

Is it good to live in a world where news of a massacre can travel around the world in an instant?

Apparent tragedy at a Connecticut Elementary School.

It’s okay to criticize military veterans–even if you never served in the military.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

George Zimmerman’s attorneys have filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies.

The New York Post splashed the photo of a man pushed in front of a train on their cover.

Dick Armey has resigned as chairman of Tea Party group FreedomWorks over unspecified principles.

Perhaps we should take a pass on trying to reach a deal on resolving issues propelling us toward the Fiscal Cliff.

A photograph of a New York cop putting boots on a homeless man went viral. The man remains bootless, however.

The new psychiatric diagnostic manual does away with some common ailments and adds some new ones.

Vilifying Thomas Jefferson is as much as mistake as placing him on a pedestal.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.

With just about a month to go before we hit the “Fiscal Cliff.” things don’t look good at all.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

There aren’t enough readers who want political reporting that’s “more substantive than POLITICO and much more sophisticated than C.Q.” and willing to pay for it.

Possibly a big week for the Supreme Court.

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.