Outside the Beltway

The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.

Since Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

A pro-Republican SuperPAC may be bringing the Jeremiah Wright story back. That would be bad news for the Romney campaign.

Marriage has always been an evolving institution.

Some Republicans see the light on same-sex marriage. Whether the party will listen is another question.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

How the Vice-President’s comment’s on Meet The Press led to an historic Presidential announcement.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

If you agree to work for nothing, don’t complain you’re being “exploited.”

The outpouring from my Twitter stream yesterday on the news of the death of Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, surprised me.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

It would be nice if policies were assessed in terms of costs and benefits.

Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.

Time to prepare yourself for the incoming deluge of polling.

Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin was “irresponsible and unethical” and politically motivated.

We won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore.

A bill that may become law in Arizona could make your Internet comments a crime.

The US Supreme Court ruled today that police can strip search anyone they decide to arrest for anything for any reason.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

Sometimes, art imitates life rather than the reverse. And sometimes reality seems stranger than fiction.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

Sure, he routinely uses gender-specific slurs against conservative women. But he’s not a misogynist!

One Goldman Sachs employee decided to quit his job in a very public manner.

47 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s performance.

Did Ronald Reagan’s impending inauguration help get our hostages released after 444 days?

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

Nominating Rick Santorum may be the best things Republicans could do to save their party, but not for the reasons Santorum thinks.

There is no Republican savior out there.

Romney eked out a win in the Michigan primary. He’s going to have a harder time there in November.