Outside the Beltway

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

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

Have we all been fooled by a 75 year old marketing campaign?

Cellphones have achieved near complete market penetration, and the smartphone is leading the way.

Marco Rubio is threatening to withdraw support for the immigration plan he helped draft, but I would suggest not reading too much into that threat.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

TIME says Cuccinelli vs. McAuliffe is “The Dirtiest, Nastiest, Low-Down Campaign In America.”

A weird story from rural Alabama.

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

The government is changing the way it calculates Gross Domestic Product.

No, the NFL isn’t a non-profit. Yes, it pays massive amounts of taxes.

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

Apparently, our biggest problem in America is now the name of an NFL franchise.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

Michael Kinsley contends “Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster.”

What is the appropriate response to someone who’s acting like a jerk?

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

The infamous “red line” may not have been crossed after all. At least not by the Assad regime.

The soft underbelly of the post-ownership society.

Shutting down media that the government doesn’t like is unlikely to solve the sectarian problems in Iraq.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

A McDonald’s hamburger has been in a man’s car trunk since 1999. It still looks and smells the same as the day he bought it, minus the pickle.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.

If you want to understand contemporary politics, the last thing you should do is reference an Andrew Sorkin project.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

A sensational story, little solid information, and instant analysis are a bad combination