Outside the Beltway

McAuliffe pulling away?

Cathy’s husband and Jess’ father, Jer, was killed in the shooting spree at the Navy Yard.

The United States and Russia have agreed to the framework of a deal to turn over Syrian chemical weapons.

A gun rights victory at the ballot box in Colorado.

Even before the Russian curve ball, the public opposition to military strikes on Syria was mounting.

Heading into an intense week of Congressional lobbying, the odds still seem against the Administration on Syria.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

The long investigation into rape at the Naval Academy has revealed some ugly truths.

With Congress coming back Monday, the prospective vote counts are decidedly against authorizing military force against Syria.

Things aren’t looking good for President Obama in the House of Representatives.

Federal civilian employees are set to get a 34 percent pay raise. The mean old man in the White House is taking it away.

The award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post:

The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Bradley Manning will be spending a long time at Leavenworth.

David C. Jones, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Carter and Reagan, has died.

Bill Clark, who served as National Security Advisor and Interior Secretary under Ronald Reagan, has died at 81.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

A husband and wife do unrelated, and perfectly innocent, Google searches, and get a visit from the FBI.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Think of it as the spy version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

Republicans aren’t happy with their leadership. The reason why is also the reason why Republicans are in trouble politically.

Another poll shows the President’s poll numbers dipping.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

Max Fisher has spotted a tiny link amidst the Guardian’s navigation options.

A late-night announcement that Gitmo detainees will get hearings raises more questions than it answers.

How can anyone possibly support the death penalty?

Some thoughts on a decade old video in which Samantha Power speculates on actions to take against an unfolding genocide.

If Stevie Wonder were still touring, he wouldn’t be making stops in states with “Stand Your Ground” laws.

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

The drip, drip, drip in Richmond is turning into a flood.

The US military’s lavish new headquarters in Afghanistan has been completed just in time for our exit.