Outside the Beltway

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.

The GOP (and our politics in general) will not be healed until there is an honest assessment of what government is (and is not).

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

“Vertigo” has ended “the 50-year reign” of “Citizen Kane,” which has dropped to second place.

The US government has an odd and unproductive view on the concept of talks.

Carbon emissions in the U.S. have declined just as use of natural gas in electricity production has increased. That’s no coincidence.

Another poll demonstrates the serious problems that the GOP has with Latino voters.

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

Michael Fumento becomes the latest prominent conservative to criticize what conservatism has become.

Marriage has always been an evolving institution.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

Facts are stubborn things.

Hugo Chavez has built a state on cronyism.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

Rick Santorum is at the front of a brigade that wants to re-fight the sexual revolution. They’ll lose.

Rick Santorum would do well to listen to the words of the last Catholic to be President of the United States.

The Obama Administration introduced a corporate tax reform plan that doesn’t go nearly far enough.

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

The Birthers have suffered yet another totally predictable loss in Court.

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

Conservatives seem to believe that Newt Gingrich can beat Barack Obama merely by debating him. They are delusional.

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

Why does government regulate how long some people work and not others?

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Current events have underscored who holds political power in Egypt in the post-Mubarak era.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.