Outside the Beltway

The Obama administration has released its report to Congress on what the White House staff makes. How you interpret it depends on your own economic status and your views of government in general and this president in particular.

A quick glance provides some insights into Palin’s thought processes and leadership style.

And even more bad news.

Requiring people with ethical conflicts to disclose them leads to more bad behavior, not less, a new study finds.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

Like all Presidents before him, Barack Obama is asserting the right to virtually unfettered discretion when it comes to military matters.

Cruise lines are the latest to create separate enclaves for customers willing to pay more to escape the riffraff.

It’s institutions of government – not its size – that matter when it comes to how good a job the government does.

The White House Press Office produces a blog, YouTube channel, Flickr photo stream, Facebook and Twitter profiles, and daily video programming.

Once again, it looks like efforts to reform the Senate’s filibuster rules have fallen victim to that old devil politics.

The filibuster reform package that Senate Democrats unveiled yesterday has much to recommend to it. Unfortunately, it’s probably doomed.

Have credit cards and ATMs eliminated the value of large currency zones?

Bridget Terry Long, a professor of education and economics at Harvard, argues that we should give prospective college students and their families better information on such matters as loan burdens, graduation rates, average class size, average aid package, salaries earned and positions held by recent graduates, and alumni satisfaction.

Conservative Republicans who are typically deferential to the military are ignoring the advice of the military leadership on the new START Treaty.

A Chicago voter is less than thrilled with the political slate for which he’s voting today.

Lots of jobs that existed in recent memory — secretaries, travel agents, gas station attendants, cashiers — have been replaced by technology. The middle class may be disappearing with them.

The Navy has fired fourteen skippers this year. Eleven of those were for personal misconduct.

If Republicans regain control of Congress, you could be seeing a lot of scenes like this on your television for the next two years.

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

If lawyers and MBAs don’t understand their mortgage documents, what chance do the rest of us have?

Thanks to a united Republican Caucus, the Senate failed to take up a deeply flawed campaign finance “reform” bill.

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

Barack Obama was a big hit on college campuses in 2008. Two years later, those same young voters seem to be having second thoughts.

There are some lessons for the blogosphere in this week’s Andrew Breitbart dust-up.

Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

Much like his pledge to close Guantanamo within a year, President Obama’s promised deadline to implement a “scientific integrity” program has come and gone.

Honest pollsters should deposit their raw data with the Roper Center to improve transparency.

If you know where the JournoList archive is, Andrew Breitbart has got some cash for you.

Nikki Haley overcame a smear campaign and religious bigotry to come one step closer to the Governor’s Mansion in South Carolina.