Outside the Beltway

The first episode of “Seinfeld” aired 25 years ago yesterday.

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the city of Slovyansk from pro-Russian separatists.

Some surveys suggest that younger Americans are less patriotic than older generations.

Reflections on a story making the rounds this Independence Day.

The June Jobs Report is basically good news.

Could a transcription error be changing our understanding of America’s founding document?

The streak continues.

Is ISIS’s reach about to exceed its grasp?

Well this is a unique defense.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.

We federal civil servants are apparently in for a backdoor pay raise.

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The first three months of the year were worse for the economy than first thought.

Even the most ideologically divided members of the Supreme Court agree with each other 65% of the time.

Lawmakers and journalists don’t understand the civil service.

The First Amendment protects government employees who testify truthfully.

Did sending some of its workforce home without pay impact the work environment at the Defense Department? Duh.

Too regularly engage in “bedtime procrastination,” creating a vicious cycle.

Iraq’s Prime Minister seems to be responding to the uprising in his country in a way guaranteed to make it worse.

Will ISIS be able to consolidate and hold the territory it’s taken in Iraq?

A new job for the Congressman recently filed by his own constituents?

Twenty-five years after his seminal “End of History” article, Francis Fukuyama reflects on its legacy.

Things only seem to be getting worse in Iraq.

A new theory posits that planets capable of supporting life may be far more common than previously thought.

Once ubiquitous, checks are disappearing as a means of payment.

The May Jobs Report was fairly good, and it marks the end of a jobs recession that started six years ago. But things aren’t entirely rosy.

On of the last surviving members of the “Band of Brothers” does it again.

Far right parties are succeeding in Europe because the mainstream parties aren’t offering an alternative.

Different name, same result in Egypt.

The President’s second speech to the Corps of Cadets is a vast improvement over the first.

The saga of Malaysian Air Flight 370 continues to be just weird.

A great American writer has passed away.

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

They’ve got a new President, but there’s still much to do.

The Supreme Court, subject to revision.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is a name we’re likely to be seeing in the news for some time to come.

The European far right has found a friend in an unlikely place.

The editors of our great newspapers are interchangeable.

The unequal distribution of social capital may be more important than the unequal distribution of income.