Outside the Beltway

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

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

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

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

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

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

Once again, a natural disaster has caused a common economic fallacy re resurface.

Under the right circumstances, it would be possible to postpone a Presidential election.

Naturally, most of us are asking: What does this mean for next Tuesday’s election.

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

The Afghanistan War is officially eleven years old today.

Conservatives are suposed to be cheerleaders these days.

After three days of buildup to a “mystery speaker,” the closing night of the Republican convention featured a rambling performance by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

As far as the law is concerned, your social media accounts aren’t private at all.

As public education continues to wallow in the past, some parents are looking elsewhere for alternatives.