Outside the Beltway

The two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are clashing on defense appropriations.

Senators John McCain and Carl Levin have demanded answers from General Martin Dempsey on Syria. Can they handle the truth?

Some classes at the service academies have been canceled due to the sequester.

The United States has far and away the most capable navy on the planet. But it’s not very capable at the moment.

Tony Kornheiser celebrated becoming a senior citizen by playing a round of golf with the president.

The Pentagon has canceled a popular air show even though it operates at a profit and takes place next fiscal year.

The Defense Department will freeze promotions, cut workers, and suspend training in the face of across-the-board funding cuts.

We’re paying a lot of money for defense contractors. It’s not clear how much of this is wasteful.

Just when you thought the sequestration process couldn’t get more cynical.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

The sequestration cuts are two months old, and it seems pretty clear that the claims of doom we heard before they went into effect were heavily exaggerated.

Airport delays are the latest example of targeting sequestration cuts where the taxpayer will feel them most.

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March’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.

One Virginia Republican Member of Congress recently got a lesson in what going against the GOP’s hyperpartisan atmosphere feels like.

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The head men of the three most prestigious US national laboratories say the sequester will devastate scientific research in this country for decades to come.

Rand Paul’s filibuster has made him a darling among conservatives but it may not last.

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Reminding government employees that they are employees of the government is suddenly controversial.

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Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

Ezra Klein argues that the voters already decided how the sequestration fight should play out.

The Obama administration is promising massive cuts in public-facing services in the face of minuscule “cuts” to the budget.

The political antics surrounding the sequestration cuts is a prime example of what’s wrong with Washington.

The sequestration cuts are fast approaching, and the political battle is continuing.

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Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

January’s Jobs Report wasn’t much to write home about

Some surprisingly bad economic news