Outside the Beltway

Harry Reid is supposedly making another run at filibuster reform.

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.

Don’t blame “secret courts” for the government’s expanded spying on American citizens and allies.

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.

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.

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

The Supreme Court today struck down the most controversial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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

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

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.

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

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

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

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.

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?

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

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

The under-35 set are buying cars at a lower rate than they used to.

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

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

The American people aren’t panicking.

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

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

Why does the stock market care if there is an explosion at the White House?