Outside the Beltway

North Korea’s mercurial leader has apparently executed yet another high ranking official.

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

If a new campaign succeeds, Harriet Tubman could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

Ray Mabus is trying to make serving in the Navy and Marine Corps more attractive to women.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

With the election behind him, David Cameron’s biggest problems may be yet to come.

Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.

It didn’t take the N.F.L. long to lower the hammer on Tom Brady and the Patriots.

A plan to distribute migrants from the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa across the entire European Union seems destined to cause political conflict.

Like most Republicans, Jeb Bush either fails or refuses to recognize what an utter, unjustifiable disaster his brother’s decision to invade Iraq actually was.

Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.

House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.

Director of National Intelligence now tells Congress that he testified falsely about NSA spying because he forgot the program existed.

Time the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

The tributes to the troops you see during N.F.L. games were most likely bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

For reasons only he can understand. South Carolina’s senior Senator will be entering the race for the White House early next month.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

The That’s Some Bad Hat, Kerry Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A Judge in New Jersey has ruled that the twin children of a New Jersey woman were in fact fathered by two different men.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.

The jobs market bounced back in April, but that’s about all we can say.

After weeks of polls predicting a political stalemate or worse, British voters delivered a strong win for David Cameron and the Tories.

Largely in reaction to revelations about N,S.A. surveillance, Germany has cut back on its intelligence cooperation with the United States.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

The political outlook in the United Kingdom is as uncertain as it has ever been.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

A report prepared for the N.F.L. regarding the so-called ‘DeflateGate’ scandal doesn’t have very good news for the Patriots or their star quarterback.

A new poll has some bad news for Jeb Bush in the Hawkeye State, which leads to the idea that maybe he shouldn’t waste too much time there to begin with.

And some thoughts on how a small number of voters can influence major office-holder behavior.

There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.

Possibly big news out of Canada

Most managers work beyond 9-to-5.

In a move that is clearly designed to have an impact in the General Election, Hillary Clinton came out in support of broad immigration reform in Nevada yesterday.

Some people in the media can’t seem to get it through their heads that speech they consider hateful is entitled to as much protection as speech that they support.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, could hold the key to the future of Britain in her hands after the election ends on May 7th.