Outside the Beltway

Frank Foer proclaims, “Amazon Must Be Stopped. It’s too big. It’s cannibalizing the economy.”

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

Last week’s security breach just became a lot more serious.

Facts are stubborn things.

Well, that punishment didn’t last for very long.

So far at least, there is no evidence that 2014 will be a “wave election.”

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

The Supreme Court rules that Recess Appointments can only be made when there’s actually a Congressional recess.

It is now illegal to teach creationism as science in the United Kingdom in any school, public or private, that receives public funding.

Yet more adventures in bad records retention policy at the IRS.

Next term, the Supreme Court will try to decide when online speech crosses the line and becomes a criminal threat.

A turning point in public opinion?

Another legal victory for marriage equality.

Using a chemical to commit a purely domestic crime doesn’t make you an international criminal, the Supreme Court correctly decided today.

Sooner or later, the Supreme Court will have to rule on a challenge to state laws banning same-sex marriage.

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?

Preserving the filibuster.

And Pennsylvania makes it 19.

Yet another Federal Judge has struck down a state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

Toll plazas coming to an Interstate near you?

General Motors is headed back to court.

The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

President Obama has gotten more federal judges confirmed at every level than his predecessor had at this point.

.Wonkblog’s “Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard” is rightly drawing some eye-rolling.

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

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

The votes are in. And the outcome is meaningless.