Outside the Beltway

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

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.

Market Watch presents this infographic of “the most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

Cowardice. There really isn’t any other word for it.

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

The fight for marriage equality takes another step forward.

Is 435 the right number?

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

Lest we forget what the entire “Duck Dynasty” brouhaha is really all about.

A 17th state legalizes gay marriage. There’s no turning back.

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

Thoughts on the precursors to the events of 72 years ago today.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

The battle for marriage equality has scored a number of victories in a short period of time, but that’s about to change.

Daylight Savings Time ends early on Sunday. Perhaps it should never return.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

Chris Christie’s decision to take a tactical retreat on the issue of same-sex marriage raises some interesting questions for 2016.

Congress is still getting paid during the shutdown, and there’s nothing that can be done about that.

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”

Until this year, being gay could get you kicked out of the military. Now, it comes with perks.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

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

A Colorado 6-year-old with a penis has successfully sued for the right to use the girls’ restroom.

Not surprisingly, Edward Snowden has been formally charged in connection with the leak of classified NSA documents.

Going from flying a real airplane to operating a drone in Alamagordo sucks.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.

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