Outside the Beltway

Two prominent Florida Republicans are warning their party about losing the support of the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group.

Not surprisingly, it’s the end of Huntsmania

Once again, people are engaging in largely mindless speculation involving Hillary Clinton.

A new Iowa polls shows Rick Santorum gaining support. Or does it?

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

GOP officials are reluctant to resurrect the personal attacks against the President used during the 2008 campaign.

Are Republicans mostly to blame for the supercommittee failure?

A dwindling proportion of students are majoring in STEM fields. They’re likely making the wise choice.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

Breaking news: There’s a gay man in Hollywood.

Another round of rumors is out claiming that Chris Christie is thinking about running for President.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

The latest push for laws against bullying is another example of the Nanny State rum amok.

Is she in or is she out? And does it matter?

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Iraq has become so dependent on Iran for its survival that it is endorsing the brutal tactics of Bashar Assad.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

Jack Kevorkian, the man who’s illegal assisted suicide rampage earned him the nickname “Dr. Death,” has died.

Sarah Palin’s latest media spectacle will be heading west next month.

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

A new biography of Adolf Hitler analyzes new documents about his World War I service and “concludes that he was not the hero he was later made out to be and that his radicalization shouldn’t necessarily be attributed to his wartime experiences.”

Wisconsin Republicans stripped state employees of collective bargaining rights without the Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a quorum.

Pfc. Bradley Manning is being treated worse than a Prisoner Of War, and he hasn’t been convicted of a crime yet.

The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.

Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

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

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.