Outside the Beltway

Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?

Once again, Rush Limbaugh panders to the most pernicious of the right side of American politics.

Going after Hillary Clinton by attacking her husband won’t work.

Just when it became safe to keep your shoes and tablets on, a new threat to the friendly skies has emerged: toothpaste.

Rand Paul seems to think a 15 year old scandal is relevant to the 2016 Presidential race.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

There are many choices in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program there are many choices, but some are better than others.

Signs of some progress in the talks over Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

The “Hastert Rule” isn’t the reason Speaker Boehner isn’t bringing a “clean” CR up for a vote, political survival is.

The situation we currently find oursevles in is very much driven by structural issues.

Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.

Given that the vote count seems to be heading that way, this is a question worth examination.

A top Republican Senator blasts the plan by some of his colleagues to “defund” Obamacare.

People who drink more coffee are less likely to kill themselves.

As many as 500 convicted al Qaeda terrorists were released Sunday night as part of a surge of violence that has killed thousands since April.

David Brooks warns that failing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill “could be a tragedy for the country and political suicide for Republicans.”

A state of perpetual war is incompatible with good mental health and stable family relationships.

Some really bad advice for the GOP.

Radical Islamists now dominate the Syrian opposition. And you’re arming them.

The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

The Army has war gamed a conflict to secure a failed North Korea. It would not be a cakewalk.

Ross Wilson, former US ambassador to Turkey, says yesterday’s suicide attack on our embassy in Ankara “was no Benghazi.”

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.