Outside the Beltway

A NATO airstrike killed 13 rebel fighters, who were mistaken for Gaddafi’s forces. Apparently, they were shooting at NATO planes.

The experiences of two well-known academics denied tenure at Chicago provide some clues.

A new study finds that the robust growth of the financial sector in the United States in recent decades has come at the expense of entrepreneurship.

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

The peculiar habit of some Indo-Europeans of assigning gender to nouns is frustrating and amusing.

The legendary columnist David Broder has died.

Scientists have discovered that the Internet could be a useful collaborate tool.

James Franco is a film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor. And working on a PhD at Yale.

Northwestern’s Human Sexuality course includes a naked woman being brought to orgasm with a dildo.

Americans had it so much better in the 1950s, right?

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Several “correct” answers on the American citizenship test are technically incorrect.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Later this week, Clarence Thomas will have gone five years without asking a question during oral argument at the Supreme Court. Is that really a big deal?

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

The federal government’s newest dietary guidelines have finally stated that which has long been between the lines: Americans eat too damn much food.

The coverage of Egypt shows an over-reliance on pundits and an under-reliance on actual experts.

The post-Sputnik innovation wave was sparked by government investment, not the entrepreneurial spirit.

Was the 2011 SOTU a blatant rip-off of past speeches? Or simply banal?

In chapter three of Liberty and Tyranny, Mark Levin applies his typical standards of logic and evidence to matters of faith.

A new study casts new light on the importance of testing students to reinforce their grasp of information.

A new study suggests college students aren’t learning the critical thinking skills they’re supposed to learn, but that isn’t necessary the fault of the university they’re attending.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

Republicans are renaming three House committees, including bring back Ethics and taking out Labor.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who may end up running for President in 2012, has reopened wounds that finally seemed like they were closed.

150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.

The institutions charged with solving our Information Age social problems are stuck in the Industrial Age.