Outside the Beltway

The legendary singer, songwriter, and actor is gone at 88.

Should wills have an expiration date?

Lee Drutman’s Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

SCOTUS and “faithless electors.”

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

The fight to determine the leader of the Conservative Party, and the next British Prime Minister, is down to two candidates, but there’s one clear favorite.

As Conservative MP’s continue winnowing down the list of candidates for party leader, Boris Johnson remains the overwhelming leader. However, a surprise challenger may be on his heels.

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

A towering figure gone much too soon.

Thanks to mostly what amounts to bad science reporting in the popular media, a false claim about one of nature’s most mysterious and unique creatures continues to spread.

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

The reclusive author of one of the greatest American novels ever written has died at the age of 89.

The seeds of the current peace deal date back to 2007-2008 (plus some longer-term background notes).

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

John Nagl, who became famous as a leading counterinsurgency theorist and practitioner, is taking on a new challenge: grooming young boys for life.

Oxford University has dropped the Oxford comma! A dark day for humanity.

It took Andrew Sullivan 18 years to get his request for Permanent Resident status approved. That’s just absurd.

Jane Austen was a poor speller and sloppy grammarian but her published words were precise and exquisite thanks to her editor, William Gifford.