Outside the Beltway

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.

If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

Another survey shows that Americans don’t know much about their own history, but does it really matter?

While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.

Comedienne Joan Rivers tells Howard Stern why she ditched a joke calling Michelle Obama “Backie O.”

Tina Brown has confirmed the merger of the venerable Newsweek and the upstart Daily Beast.

Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?

Newsweek’s latest poll shows a boom in support for President Obama and the Democrats. It’s the only poll showing that, however.

Another new media star is coming to the rescue of an old media dinosaur. Put it’s probably too late.

In yet another sign of how rapidly the media landscape is changing, longtime Newsweek stalwart is leaving for the Huffington Post.

Newt Gingrich is feeding the fires again, this time claiming that the President may be guided by a “Kenyan,” “anti-colonialist” worldview.

Fareed Zakaria argues that the fact al Qaeda has not launched a major attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 proves we overreacted to those attacks. I beg to differ.

Former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson is making a zealous case for same-sex marriage. Why are people surprised?

Honest pollsters should deposit their raw data with the Roper Center to improve transparency.

The public is growing tired of America’s Longest War.