Outside the Beltway

Just as the auto industry has, painfully, had to learn to adapt to a new world, the city will as well even if that means becoming a shadow of its former self.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

A Brazilian soccer referee was tortured and beheaded after fatally stabbing a player.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

Even the national sport is arousing the anger of the protesters in Brazil.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

The same story yet again.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

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

Time for the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

A Washington Post fact check calls this “true but false.”

Welcome technological change, or crony capitalism?

You’d think that in today’s world employers wouldn’t have trouble finding qualified employees. You’d be wrong.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Yes, China’s GDP growth has been impressive for some time now, but it is not the sole way to understand development.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

Is it reasonable to state that countries with less guns are more likely to become tyrannical than countries with more guns?

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.