Outside the Beltway

President Obama has once again weighed in on the Trayvon Martin case in a personal manner.

Until the presiding Judge in the case rules otherwise, the identities of the members of the jury in the Zimmerman is secret. Should that be the case?

New technology brings the day of round the clock tracking of citizens who’ve done nothing wrong ever closer.

George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges by a Florida jury late Saturday night.

Ostensible allies in the fight against the Assad regime, al Qaeda and the Free Syrian Army are killing each other.

Certain aspects of Egyptian civic life have improved rapidly in the wake of the military coup, raising at least some questions about the events leading up to it.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

Forget about the budget deficit and spending. The Tea Party apparently now considers stopping immigration reform to be its most important task.

if reports are to be believed, there is a coup d’etat underway in Egypt.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

The Texas Legislature is putting up its controversial abortion bill again, but don’t expect things do end the way they did last week.

Yesterday saw some of the biggest protests ever to rock Egypt. Where does it go from here?

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

The Egyptian military appears to be signalling that its patience for political chaos may be running short.

A new theory circulating on the right asserts that IRS targeting of Tea Party groups had an impact on the 2012 elections by diminish the Tea Party’s effectiveness. It’s mostly nonsense.

Even the national sport is arousing the anger of the protesters in Brazil.

Your latest Outrage Of The Day.

Libya continues to teeter on the brink of chaos.

Scott Walker could be the GOP’s surprise candidate in 2016.

Two polls indicate that most Americans oppose the President’s latest moves on Syria. This makes sense considering actual policy there seems to be entirely incoherent.

The AP has the Supreme Court banning demonstrations at the Supreme Court. The regulation in question doesn’t actually do that.

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Turkey has had along and ongoing struggle with democratic consolidation.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

Debunking a conservative myth that has arisen in connection the Benghazi story.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?