Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of three students disciplined for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

Sony is warning the press not to publish material leaked by hackers, but it doesn’t have much of a legal leg to stand on.

Today is a day for turkey and football, not a day for politics.

Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

A new report from the New York Times confirms the adage that, in war, the first casualty is the truth.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Newly released documents reveal that Henry Kissinger wanted to attack Cuba in the mid-1970s.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

Not every soldier is a hero. Not even every POW.

It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.

The very idea of a “war on religion” in the United States is absurd.

There’s plenty of blame to go around.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

So, this happened.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post and the Guardian are Pulitzer Prize winners.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War hero and one-term US Senator from Alabama, has died. He was 89.

Americans are skeptical about getting involved in the Ukraine crisis. This isn’t a surprise.

The Supreme Court turns down a case dealing with student’s First Amendment rights.

Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.

Watch your language in Wilson County, North Carolina.

The “good war” no more.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

WSJ’s Marc Myers has a fascinating chat with Keith Richards on the making of one of the Stones’ iconic tracks.

Some 2000 veterans of World War II were lobotomized by the VA. That’s awful but not outrageous.

A third term for any of these guys? Don’t count on it.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

It’s no wonder there’s no compromise in Congress.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

Presidents have gotten away with ignoring Congress when it comes to foreign military adventures for a very long time.

West Point graduates account for nearly one in fifty deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some really bad advice for the GOP.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.