Outside the Beltway

As the season changes, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems destined to peter out.

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

The execution of Troy Davis brings back to the forefront the reasons why the death penalty is inherently flawed.

Workers account for 80% of the Postal Service budget vs. 53% at UPS and 32% at FedEx.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

The biggest news story of the past six weeks was something completely trivial.

The first Appeals Court decision on the Affordable Care Act was a victory for the government.

How many Texas politicians does it take to screw in a non-communist light bulb?

A new Georgia immigration law is causing serious problems for Georgia’s farmers.

In addition to Alabama, we can also have Georgia on ours minds on the ongoing immigration debate.

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?

The next shoe has dropped in the battle between campaign finance laws and the 1st Amendment.

Thousands of pedestrians are killed in America each year. Are we doing enough about it?

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.

The challenges to the Affordable Care Act will remain in the Courts of Appeals for now, but they’re still on a pretty fast track.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

The systemic risks of financial institutions haven’t changed much since 2008.

Given the schedule they’re on in the Courts of Appeals, it is likely that the Supreme Court will rule on one or more of the lawsuits challenging the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act just before the start of the 2012 campaign.

They’re from the government, and they’re here to take that tasty snack out of your hands.

A 2005 concurring opinion from Antonin Scalia may be the piece of legal reasoning that ultimately saves the Affordable Care Act in the Courts.

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

The NFL’s “especially mercenary” push to extract new stadia from cities–even where the stadium’s practically brand-new.

Mitch McConnell made clear today that he’s targeting Barack Obama for defeat in two years.

As widely rumored, Fredi Gonzalez has been hired to manage the Atlanta Braves, following the retirement of the beloved Bobby Cox.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

The new health care law’s individual mandate has survived it’s first legal challenge, and that’s not really a surprise.

A staffer for U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military.