Outside the Beltway

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

A new blog, Rejection Letters of the Philosophers, “imagin[es] what the greats of history might have been faced with, had they been forced to publish or perish.”

Exploring data from 33 years’ of FISA reports to Congress

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

Old Man’s war, a sci-fi novel about the distant future published in 2007, features Newsweek magazine, which went out of business in 2012.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Thanks to the CFTC, Americans will no longer be able to participate in Intrade’s predictions markets.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

More griping about poor analysis.

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

Democrats Barack Obama and Tim Kaine have gained momentum in Virginia in weekend polling.

President Obama is likely to win re-election while overwhelmingly losing the white vote. Does it matter?

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

A victory for opponents of Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law, but likely only a temporary one.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

Getting to the heart of the problem from my POV (plus historical numbers).

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

Not surprisingly, a new study finds that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has not caused any harm to the military.

Jonathan Bernstein didn’t make any predictions about the Wisconsin primary but wants you to know that, if he had, he would have been wrong.

One year ago, the U.S. lost it’s AAA credit rating with S&P. There doesn’t appear to have been any real impact from that decision.

Once again, we learn that hosting the Olympics doesn’t carry nearly the economic benefit the IOC wants host cities to believe it does.

It was supposed to be the return of the heady days of the great Tech Industry IPOs. But, things didn’t quite go as planned.

The “Clinton-Biden Switcheroo” Scenario is the pundit’s fantasy that will not die.

The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.

Once again, those predictions of $5.00 gas may have been much ado about nothing.

It seems to have been a rough day for the individual mandate at the Supreme Court.

Starting tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court dives into the most significant case that has been before it in many years.

We may have to deal with the debt ceiling again before the November elections.

Voting has started in the biggest primary to date.

Higher gas prices in the spring could have an impact on the economy, and the election.

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

Yes, it’s time to talk about that again.