Outside the Beltway

They’re letting anyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame these days.

Status report on the damage in Japan.

A new biography of Adolf Hitler analyzes new documents about his World War I service and “concludes that he was not the hero he was later made out to be and that his radicalization shouldn’t necessarily be attributed to his wartime experiences.”

Facebook limits accounts to those who say that they are at least 13 years old. Shockingly, some kids lie to get on the popular social network.

Job interviews, resumes, and all the rest are imperfect ways of matching candidates with employment openings.

The first wave of the tsunami caused by the Japanese earthquake is expected to strike Hawaii at 8:00am EST.

Wisconsin Republicans stripped state employees of collective bargaining rights without the Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a quorum.

Salmon Khan argues that students should watch videos at night and practice during the day.

All of the plausible Republican contenders for 2012 have significant downsides.

Marizela Perez, Michelle Malkin’s cousin, remains missing. She was last seen in Seattle’s University District Saturday afternoon.

William Easterly identifies the concept of the negative highway, inconvenient connections between Interstate highways seemingly created for the sole purpose of enticing people to shop at local businesses.

The top ranks of the military are whiter and decidedly more male than the country as a whole. Should that change?

The lines between our public and professional identities and our private and social ones continue to blur.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

Mike Huckabee apologized for saying Barack Obama grew up in Kenya, explaining only that he meant that the president isn’t a Real American.

The United States Army is radically redesigning its physical fitness test.

Americans had it so much better in the 1950s, right?

Labor and management are not simply adversaries at the negotiating table; they represent two very different cultures, if not social classes.

Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

Wisconsin’s taxpayers are paying 100 percent of the cost of the benefits programs for state employees. But the benefits amount to a payment in kind.

A new site will identify news articles based on press releases rather than journalism.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not campaign on the union-busting package he’s proposing now.

Four U.S. citizens on a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates last week are dead. American military have killed the pirates.

The Dork from Ork Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

We can’t rely on private companies, the stock market, or the taxpayers to maintain our lifestyle in our golden years.

Tweeting feels like IM’ing but it’s more like blogging.

Here are some cooking tips from a master chef.

Ezra Klein dubs the Federal government “an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.”

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 could be a Google killer. It could also kill the Web as we know it.

JCPenney used black hat SEO to game Google. But Google’s penalties are arguably just as bad. And what about HuffPo?

Do conservatives believe in evolution and global warming?

The Obama administration’s investigation into Toyota safety problems has found no electronic flaws to account for reports of sudden, unintentional acceleration and other safety problems.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

Why on earth are we still using coin operated parking meters when our highest value coin in actual use can only buy you seven and a half minutes of parking?

An interpretation of the events in Egypt.

How do the DC suburbs of Maryland and Virginia compare?

AOL has bought the Huffington Post. But, really, it’s the other way around: HuffPo has taken over AOL.

Revolutions don’t happen over a weekend.

Was the 2011 SOTU a blatant rip-off of past speeches? Or simply banal?

Does Russia really spend more on roads than we do?

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

What happened to the 15 million jobs that were supposed to be created in the past 10 years but weren’t?

Now that Republicans have the House, wouldn’t they be better off playing nice?

Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was, like a political stump speech, crafted and polished over months and years of delivery.

Factions on the right and left continue to charge one another with trying to politicize the Tucson murders. They’re now nitpicking the memorial service.

Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.

What happens if Southern Sudan’s independence referendum succeeds?