Outside the Beltway

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

In what would be a classic bit of political irony, polling indicates that the House lawsuit against the President could make Democrats more likely to vote in November.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Americans have become deeply cynical about government. To some extent that is a good thing, but it’s reaching unhealthy levels.

The current immigration debate is yet another great example of how our system works (so to speak).

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

The Israeli public if overwhelmingly behind the war in Gaza, and that means it will probably continue for awhile.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Add Libya to the list of the world’s trouble spots.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

If you live in Russia, you’re getting a different version of the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Someone took down a Boeing 777 over Ukraine today.

Another incident involving a Malaysia Airlines 777, but this one could be far more serious.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

That ball is in your court, Congress.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

Obama is the worst President since FDR died? Only if you believe a mostly worthless poll.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

A committee of journalists who work in the “traditional” media has once again denied press credentials to SCOTUSBlog.

Some questions for the Republicans who would be President about the actions of the last Republican President.

Ahmed Abu Kattalah, the alleged ringleader of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, has been arrested.

The IRS’s claim that it lost some unknown number of Lois Lerner’s emails doesn’t really add up.

Some bad news for the President.

There’s really no better word for it than blackmail.

An unknown Tea Party candidate unexpectedly beat the House Leader in today’s GOP primary.

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

The May Jobs Report was fairly good, and it marks the end of a jobs recession that started six years ago. But things aren’t entirely rosy.

On of the last surviving members of the “Band of Brothers” does it again.

After two and a half decades, the images of June 4, 1989 resonate with many, unless you happen to live in China.

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.