Outside the Beltway

The complicated issues surrounding U.S. aid to Egypt.

Doesn’t pass the smell test.

The 5-4 ruling was much more sweeping than needed to strike down DOMA.

Speaker Boehner seems confident that immigration reform will become law this year, but his confidence may be premature.

The latest theory about what Neil Armstrong said on the moon is based on his boyhood in northwestern Ohio.

Inside the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration investigation into the IRS scandal.

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

There’s bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill that they don’t want to participate in ObamaCare.

The Senate’s rejection of the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill isn’t particularly outraging the general public, according to a new poll.

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the GOP finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

The sequestration cuts are fast approaching, and the political battle is continuing.

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats.

The Speaker’s version of what went down during the negotiations does not make the Speaker look good.

The House GOP is moving in an ever more dangerous direction.