Outside the Beltway

My latest for The Atlantic continues the debate over work-life balance spawned by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.”

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonably expect it to be a lie.

An lesson from the United Kingdom in the importance of protecting freedom of speech.

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.

Not surprisingly, the Supercommittee is a Super Failure.

Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel are being criticized for the brusque manner they handled questions about their children’s education.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

The Wall Street Journal is joining the modern era and dropping the practice of referring to people as “Mr.” and “Ms.” But only on the sports pages.

It’s been a decade since al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors. The perpetrators are still at large.

Under pressure from the Feds, the NCAA is cracking down on colleges who put women’s games ahead of men’s games, which some say relegates them to “warm-up act” status.

There is an al Qaeda link to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Uganda.

The federation governing international soccer joins a long list of international institutions — NATO, the G-8, the UN Security Council, and the EU come readily to mind — that need to be brought into the 21st century.