Outside the Beltway

The American people no longer seem to care if their political leaders are divorced.

The days of free news on the Internet may be coming to an end.

Apparently, today’s youth no longer know how to have good sex on account of they’re having too much sex.

Ross Douthat bemoans the evolution of American cultural norms over the past fifteen years.

The “social web” was with us long before the rise of Facebook, Twitter and its kind and that the old style sharing is actually much more important than the new.

Apparently, some significant number of people are starving themselves to “save calories” for getting drunk.

If kids practiced French two hours a day . . .

90 percent of Americans support background checks for gun purchases. They are unlikely to be enacted into law.

Conveying military experience to civilian human resources departments is hard.

Bill McClellan calls for ending military funeral honors for most veterans.

Targeting terrorist leadership may be counterproductive.

The economy has been steadily recovering from the Great Recession. But the jobs may never come back.

The former coach of an American team playing a foreign sport is upset that his foreign-born successor is using foreign-born Americans.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

Is the answer to the same-sex marriage debate as simple as getting the government out of the marriage business, or is it more complicated?

Habemus Papam

Things are heating up on the Korean Peninsula again.

California’s senior senator comes to the right conclusion through the wrong reasoning.

A somewhat good jobs report for February, but still no sign that the jobs recession is ending any time soon.

Much touted snowstorm set the DC area atwitter, only to fall short of expectations and yield derision.

The White House employs calligraphers. And pays them money!

The government of Malaysia paid a lot of money to get some blogs placed at various outlets.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

Republicans at the state level are still trying to cook the books in the Electoral College

CPAC’s organizers have decided not to invite the most popular Governor in the country.

Ezra Klein argues that the voters already decided how the sequestration fight should play out.

A Brazilian group is suing Apple for making its iPads better too quickly.

Once again, Utah’s former Governor is making sense.

t’s been more than two-and-a half years since the United States passed major legislation.

Calls for more American kids to pursue STEM careers ignores the hiring realities.

Reclining your seat comes at the expense of your fellow traveler’s knees. Why is it an option?