Outside the Beltway

The Clinton Foundation’s foreign donations continue to be a problem for the Clinton campaign, and the story isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

Many of America’s top law firms have declined to accept cases defending bans on same-sex marriage, and that’s okay.

A review of Rolling Stone’s now discredited report of a sexual assault at the University of Virginia reveals a shocking failure of journalistic ethics.

As expected, New Jersey’s senior Senator has been indicted.

After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.

Ted Cruz kicks off with the first of what is likely to be a string of candidates getting into the 2016 race in the coming month.

A powerful Democratic Senator looks like he’s about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

Would increasing the size of the House of Representatives be the cure for what ails Congress?

There’s nothing wrong with choosing not to vote.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

Two men in North Carolina are free after spending 31 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.

The announcement of a potential merger between Burger King and Tim Horton’s has led to much moral preening from the usual suspects.

Our laws and social norms have not caught up to modern life.

We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

My latest for The National Interest, “The U.S. Military’s Ethics Crisis,” has posted.

A brain dead woman in Texas is being kept alive while a fetus that is still not viable grows inside of her.

If Amazon gives discounts to people with children, is it acceptable to falsely claim you have a child in order to get a discount?

Thanks to current patent and drug regulation laws, we’re paying up to $2,000 for a drug when there’s a drug that does the same thing for orders of magnitude less.

Polls in Virginia don’t open for another 48 hours or so, but the end result has become fairly apparent when you look at the polls.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has endorsed “none of the above” for governor of Virginia.

The Virginia Governor’s race may be slipping too far for Republicans to pull off a victory.

My latest for The Atlantic, “It Isn’t the Military’s Place to Weigh In on the Syria Debate,” has posted.

if reports are to be believed, there is a coup d’etat underway in Egypt.

Not surprisingly, Lois Lerner’s attorney is saying his client will only testify under a grant of immunity.

A new blog, Rejection Letters of the Philosophers, “imagin[es] what the greats of history might have been faced with, had they been forced to publish or perish.”

Getting the courts involved in the organ transplant issue could end up being a huge mistake.

Congress gets bad grades in Gallup’s latest poll, and gridlock is the main reason

Federal workers are facing being laid off several days without pay; they’re being advised not to seek private sector employment to make up the difference.

Republicans should reject the calls to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the unfolding scandals in Washington.

A starting point for two important stories.

“Mark Sanford walked out on us, violated our trust … maybe Mark Sanford should just keep walking.”