Outside the Beltway

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

Thanks to those new electronic cigarettes, ads for cigarettes are back on television for the first time since the Nixon Administration.

The United Nations has documented 92,901 dead in Syria’s civil war.

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

The former NFL wideout formerly known as Chad Ochocinco will spend a month in jail for patting his lawyer on the fanny.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

Just about all of the substantive information in the excerpts was already revealed in the TIGTA audit.

The same story yet again.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of CNN’s Headline News staged a bizarre split-screen interview on two breaking true crime stories despite being 30 feet from one another in the same parking lot.

The American people aren’t panicking.

John McCain’s problems in 2008 went far beyond an economic crisis.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

Peter Bergen says government crackdowns since the Oklahoma City and 9/11 attacks have made getting bomb making materials harder.

There’s a lot we still don’t know about what happened in Boston, so maybe it’s time to stop speculating.

Tragedy in Boston.

Whether in the blogosphere or on television, people are increasingly only accessing sources of news and opinion that confirm their pre-conceived ideas.

Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

Illegal aliens will henceforth be be called, well, something.