Outside the Beltway

“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”

“Can’t do it, Sally.”

After grabbing a lead at the end of last year, Ted Cruz has seen Donald Trump completely reverse fortunes in Iowa with just one week to go before voting starts.

We’re in another Presidential election cycle so it must be time to speculate about Michael Bloomberg again.

As autonomous vehicles near the point where they’ll become a presence on American roads, are we approaching a day when it will largely be illegal for people to drive their own car?

Glenn Frey, bandleader of the Eagles, has died.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan

Every public school in Los Angeles, which covers over 600,000 students, plus teachers and staff, has been closed for the day in the wake of unspecified threats.

Remembering a legend on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

As we deal with the fall out from the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, we need remember the years after September 11th, 2001 and avoid holding an entire religion responsible for the actions of fanatics.

A Dallas man was kicked off a flight home from New York City because he had unknowingly cut off a flight crew member while going through a revolving door. This seems like a case of discretion gone way too far.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

A new poll taken in the wake of the Paris attacks finds Americans increasingly fearful of ISIS attacks in the U.S., opposed to the admission of Syrian refugees, and not very confident in President Obama’s ability to deal with the ISIS threat.

Donald Trump’s demagoguery and disdain for individual liberty enters a new phase.

To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.

Hillary Clinton’s attempt to explain her relationship with Wall Street and banking interests makes it sound like she’s channeling Rudy Giuliani.

Reports of at least up to sixty dead, a hostage situation, and attacks at multiple locations in Paris.

Rolling Stone faces yet another legal headache over last year’s story about a campus rape that never took place.

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.

The RNC wants Donald Trump to sign an oath that he will not run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.

“Fiscal conservative” Scott Walker is handing Wisconsin taxpayers a $400 million bill for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Kimba Wood has finally found a teacher exam she likes.

Donald Trump’s campaign seems to be making a play for whatever portion of the GOP it may be that still likes Sarah Palin.

Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.

If you’re under 21 in Hawaii, you’re still technically an adult but you can’t buy tobacco.

A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.

Whether Republicans are ready or not, Donald Trump is coming.

We live in a random and chaotic universe.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.

Being required to demonstrate competency in liberal arts to teach is racially discriminatory, a federal judge has ruled.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.

The tributes to the troops you see during N.F.L. games were most likely bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.

Big news out of Baltimore and, perhaps, the beginning of justice for Freddie Gray.

There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.

It’s time for another White House Correspondent’s Dinner, and it’s going to be just as atrocious as the last one. But, the dinner isn’t the real problem.

The confirmation of a new Attorney General has been held up nearly six months for what amounts to no legitimate reason.

Australia has an interesting new idea about how to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.