Outside the Beltway

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

President Obama thinks that it would be a good idea if everyone were forced to vote. He’s wrong, and his idea is most likely unconstitutional.

A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

Over the weekend, Mike Huckabee took another step that suggests that he is indeed planning on running for President in 2016.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.

America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.

More Ebola news that could have a negative impact on public opinion.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

A District of Columbia Judge has ruled that photographs of women taken in public do not violate the law.

The nastiest campaign ad of the 2014 cycle is here, and Wendy Davis should be ashamed of it.

Bush 2016?

A Federal Judge in Ohio has issued a very troubling ruling on that state’s early voting law.

Rather than being a bad thing, negative campaigning is an essential part of our political system.

‘The Decision’ is undecided.

Does the NBA’s best player have first mover advantage? Or should he take his time?

Native American names are everywhere.

Another solid victory for the First Amendment from the Roberts Court.

Fears about convention goers taking advantage of Colorado’s marijuana laws could harm Denver’s chances of getting the GOP Convention.

Can we fix the VA at what government pays?

Strange goings on in Ohio.

What could possibly go wrong?

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

Imagine all these people talking on the cellphones during a long flight, or even a short one.

The FDA is declaring war on trans fats. That’s a bad idea on many levels.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

In a move that was perhaps inevitable, the City of Detroit has filed for Bankruptcy Court protection.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.