Outside the Beltway

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.

One of West Point’s first female graduates has married her long-time girlfriend at the Cadet Chapel.

Possibly a big week for the Supreme Court.

Guess who’s back?

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

The GOP’s problems extend far beyond immigration.

Believing the maker/taker dichotomy.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

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.

Two states have legalized marijuana, but before you light up you should know that there are some complications.

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

Another loss in the Federal Courts for the Defense Of Marriage Act.

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

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

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

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

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”

Mississippi is more conservative than Massachusetts is liberal.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

The former Republican governor of Florida says his former party is so extreme that it holds positions he held two years ago.

Abortion and “legitimate rape” are not what the Romney campaign should be having to deal with this week.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the shooting at the Family Research Center’s office in Washington, D.C. is already being politicized.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.