Outside the Beltway

Governor Abbott may claim he seeks to restore the constitutional order, but in fact his proposals have a lot in common with those who opposed the documents ratification in the first place.

After nearly two years of decades old stories leaking out, entertainment legend Bill Cosby has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2005.

Remembering a legend on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

The news that the late football legend Frank Gifford suffered from the same chronic brain disease that has been diagnosed in many N.F.L. players in recent years, and the upcoming release of a new film on the issue, seems certain to increase pressure to protect players at all levels of football.

To the surprise of few, Bill Simmons’ site didn’t long survive his departure.

Two gone: 14 to go.

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

A good first step, but there’s a lot more than needs to be done to reform the criminal justice system.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been charged criminally for its role in covering up sexual abuse of children by Priests.

The agency that runs Washington D.C.’s mass transit has banned all political ads after Pamela Gellar attempted to run an advertisement featuring a drawing of Mohammed.

Big news out of Baltimore and, perhaps, the beginning of justice for Freddie Gray.

“Tanking” to improve draft position has plagued the NBA for years. The solution is obvious.

The Food & Drug Administration’s new regulations requiring calorie and other information on menus in restaurants and elsewhere won’t work, could limit consumer choice, and may not be Constitutional.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

Not surprisingly, last night’s announcement that there would be no state court indictment in the Michael Brown shooting led to violence and confrontations with police. That’s not going to solve any of the real problems that face Ferguson, or any other community in the United States.

Republicans don’t really have many options if the President pulls the trigger on immigration reform via executive action.