Outside the Beltway

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

Another major campaign finance case from the Supreme Court.

A new study indicates that college degrees lead to higher wages even in fields that do not require a degree.

Jack Kirby’s heir are trying to posthumously renegotiate half-century old deals with Marvel.

If someone had given me ten guesses as to the biggest electricity hog in my house, I’d have never guessed it: The set-top box that houses my DirecTV signal and DVR.

Recent polls seem to indicate a shift in public opinion in a more libertarian direction.

When everyone can record video at any time and post it for all the world to see, is there such a thing as privacy anymore?

Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.

President Obama overruled his top legal advisors in deciding that the Libya operation does not amount to “hostilities” under the War Powers Act.

Mitt Romney told a group of unemployed Florida voters that he was unemployed, too! It’s being touted as a gaffe on Twitter but appears to be a joke.

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

The ISI appears to have shown a special interest in informants that helped the CIA find bin Laden.

DC is once again resetting the clock on its universe and starting all its books over with issue #1.

Where’s the line when a public figure interacts with a teenage fan?

A quick glance provides some insights into Palin’s thought processes and leadership style.

The American public is increasingly skeptical of foreign adventurism. Why aren’t our political candidates reflecting that?

Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is several weeks pregnant and desperately trying to salvage their marriage and his career.

In a decision released yesterday. the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified the journalist/blogger distinction somewhat.

Beck heads to the internet.

Never popular with his colleagues, Anthony Weiner may now be the least liked Member.

Austan Goolsbee is resigning as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to return to the University of Chicago.

Is Peter Diamond qualified to be a Fed governor?

James Arness, best known as the iconic Marshal Dillon on Gunsmoke, has died at 88.

Palin and the press are in mutual love, despite protestations to the contrary.

America’s physicians are becoming more liberal in response to changing working conditions.

Across the country, Republicans are pushing laws that will make voting harder.

It’s hard to get paid for work others will do for nothing.

Glenn Greenwald asks two questions about the cases of Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic. Helpfully, the second answers the first.

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

Bowing to the inevitable, Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned overnight as head of the IMF amidst high-level calls for his ouster in wake of a rape scandal.

Has technology robbed us of more than it’s given in return?

When one realizes that Trump is basically a brand, rather than anything else, his PR foray into politics makes more sense.

Senate fails to revoke tax cuts for big oil.