Outside the Beltway

On renaming commemorations.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

An idea that’s both long overdue and problematic.

An initiative that would have purported to split California into three separate states has been barred by the California Supreme Court from appearing on the November ballot.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima left just the impression it should have.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

The U.S. Government has formally charged North Korea with responsibility for the hacking attack on Sony. How to respond to that attack is a more complicated question.

A Silicon Valley businessman says he has enough signatures to get it on the ballot, but the plan to break California up into six states is most assuredly going nowhere.

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

Staff Sergeant William Guarnere, made famous by the “Band of Brothers” miniseries, has died aged 90.

.Many have tried to justify N.S.A. data mining on the theory that it could have prevented 9/11. Is that true?